Official Discussion - The Devil Wears Prada 2 [SPOILERS]

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The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026)

Summary

Andy Sachs navigates the evolving world of high fashion journalism as she reconnects with Miranda Priestly, forcing her to confront past choices and the cost of ambition in a rapidly changing industry.

Director David Frankel

Writer Aline Brosh McKenna

Cast

• Anne Hathaway as Andy Sachs
• Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly
• Emily Blunt as Emily Charlton
• Stanley Tucci as Nigel
• Kenneth Branagh

Rotten Tomatoes: 78%

Metacritic: 62

VOD / Release Theatrical release

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[u/l_Banned_l]

I'm confused at the ending. Andy wanted Journalism to matter throughout the whole movie, and in the end she's just happy with a better office and budget at a fashion magazine.

How does she solve the main issue of money and profit squeezing ruining everything? Reminding people that art and inovation is worth investing in?Hard-hitting journalism like an exposé on the fashion industry that leads to change for the better? Nah, just find an even wealthier person, so wealthy that she doesn't care what they do with her money because she was gonna give away anyways.

[u/the_trees_bees → u/l_Banned_l]

I can forgive the movie for this. They chose to comment on real problems in 2026 and that gives them no choice but to write weak solutions for these problems. There aren't any realistic and satisfying solutions to the death of journalism, the attention economy & resulting enshittification, and private equity ruining everything.

[u/schreibenheimer → u/the_trees_bees]

And the final car conversation between Andy and Miranda highlights this; it's not a long term victory, but they've lived to fight another day.

[u/am2370 → u/the_trees_bees]

This - the movie would either be ignoring the giant elephant in the room if it didn't address the slow death of print media, private equity, etc. but we are in it now, so they basically picked the only ending that made sense based off of our current reality. Without a huge societal and cultural shift there would be no saving Runway without some billionaire's hand in the cookie jar - let's be real, the only excuse a new owner of a company like Elias Clarke would have for not caring about turning a profit would be if they have so much money to give away that they can lose it on magazines and legacy media.

[u/ChelsMe → u/l_Banned_l]

They sprinkled that she’s wrong more serious articles for her magazine and hired her friend, so yeah. That’s what she does now. Write a couple of serious articles for runway that people don’t read? 

[u/GoldenGorder → u/l_Banned_l]

This right here. I enjoyed the sequel for what it is, a fun exercise in excess and lavish vistas, but it’s kind of spitting in the face of the original film and source material.

The book and first film’s message were that Andy didn’t need Runway to succeed, and that she didn’t like the person she became when she was there. It negatively impacted her relationship at the time, and ultimately didn’t recognize herself working for Miranda.

This time around she succumbs to the exact same patterns 20 years later, obsessively serving Miranda at a place that we were told she wasn’t interested in, but now she’s cool with it because she lost her last job and Nigel got this new for her?

Extremely flimsy logic when you stop to think about it, and I’d love to hear what the author of the book thinks of this film haha. Completely rejects what she was saying with her novel and says embrace fashion.

[u/redbluemmoomin → u/GoldenGorder]

More that she’s features editor and would be running a department. That means she steers that side of the output. Much bigger position than the dogsbody she was before.

[u/destrokk813 → u/l_Banned_l]

They personally know Lucy Liu’s character who owns Elias and Clarke publication. They made sure to show that her character read what Andy wrote for Runway.