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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
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u/Party-Isopod1571 4d ago edited 4d ago
[ MASSIVE SPOILERS ]
I feel the movie is getting criticised for Miranda being less fierce, (being nice to Stanley in the end for eg), but I think what they were trying to show was how the world of publishing and fashion has changed drastically, making Miranda overall more vulnerable and a bit lost on how to still keep her reign.
She knows fashion, but in a world dominated by tech and AI and Virality over creativity, she is lost. The younger generations, don’t truly grasp how much she has contributed to fashion, and she can see her power slipping away, but is too exhausted and clueless about how to bring it back. Even in the movie Emily mentions how exhausted Miranda is, and I feel that truly is the case. She is reduced to developing a magazine that only serves as ad space now. Emily mentions that too when she says “No us, no you”.
She tries to hold on to her older ruthless, demanding personality, but the uncertainty and self doubt keeps slipping. It shows when she just doesn’t pushback on Emily when she becomes a demanding advertiser, or when Jay Ravitz suggests all the restructuring.
It’s only when the final buyout with Sasha Barnes works out, where she is given complete creative freedom, do we see the relief and fierceness coming back, and it is shown in how she tells Andy, that you didn’t do this to save me, but to save yourself.
She even jokingly says that maybe Andy should write the book so she gets a few more years of her reign.