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20th Century Studios has officially confirmed that a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada (2006) will be released in theaters on May 1st, 2026, marking 20 years since the first film’s debut. 

News of the iconic film’s return quickly spread across social media platforms, sparking excitement among its global fan base. 

The role of social media, which proved to be a prevalent theme in the sequel, has been considerable as a short video of Anne Hathaway (the featured star in the movie) gracefully leaping up after slipping on the stairs during film production became viral. 

Another notable aspect of the new movie is that it will be available in South Korea on April 29th–two days prior to the global release—proving the country’s high enthusiasm for the franchise. 

In fact, the two lead co-stars of the film, Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway, visited Seoul on April 8th to promote the sequel and attend a press conference at the Four Seasons Hotel along with a red carpet event at Times Square in Yeongdeungpo. 

To briefly introduce the plot of the original film, the thread revolves around Andrea “Andy” Sachs, an aspiring journalist who becomes a junior personal assistant to the notoriously tyrannical editor-in-chief of the Runway Magazine: Miranda Priestly. 

The story portrays Andy’s dramatic evolution from an unstylish, naive new hire with a dismissive attitude towards the fashion industry to a fashionably proficient “Emily” (Miranda’s intentional use of misnomer in order to refrain from personal attachment in workplace and a showcase of power play, which reveals her megalomaniacal character). 

The Devil Wears Prada transcends the superficial glamour of the fashion world, weaving a narrative of maturity and personal growth as Andy grapples with the sacrifices she makes while disregarding the initial values she upheld including morality over success, love over title, and hard-news publication over Prada bags, Jimmy Choos and cerulean sweaters.

Towards the end of the movie, Andy discovers a reflection of Miranda on herself, and chooses to leave Runway after witnessing Miranda’s indifferent betrayal to an endeared co-worker to maintain her position in the cutthroat fashion world. 

Nonetheless, Andrea returns to Runway Magazine this week. 

The film features returning stars including Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly, Anne Hathaway as Andy Sachs, Emily Blunt as Emily and Stanley Tucci as Nigel, with new additions Kenneth Branagh, Lucy Liu, and Justin Theroux. 

The sequel follows a seasoned Miranda Priestly reuniting with her old assistant who comes back in order to manage a major company scandal as the publisher experiences a downfall of traditional fashion print media. 

In a Vogue Korea interview featuring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway executed by IVE’s Jang Wonyoung, Hathaway says “it would have been very easy to have just made a film that only relied on nostalgia, but we wanted more … It is a visual delight. It’s funny. It’s got unbelievable music.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlxbdC3ROtI)       

Fans are eager to see how wittily the sequel will satirize workaholism and the toxic “fashion closet” culture fast forward to two decades. 

20 years after the iconic film first defined the intersection of passion and fashion, The Devil Wears Prada 2 now revisits the ever-evolving world of publication set in a shifting landscape of media and couture.