It’s one of Meryl Streep’s best roles: 18 years later, will she be in the sequel to this iconic 2000s comedy?

Fun Friday a few weeks ago, today is The Devil Wears Prada: studios are making more and more films to bring the 2000s back to the big screen. And so should the second one, released in 2006 in our cinemas, starring Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt.

At least that’s how it’s been announced Puck News, claimed that producer Wendy Finerman managed to convince Meryl Streep to reprise one of her most iconic roles: Miranda Priestly, the tyrannical editor-in-chief of a prestigious fashion magazine. A character inspired by the legendary Anna Wintour, with whom Lauren Weisberger, the author of the novel on which the film is based, worked at Vogue.

The media is also heralding the return of Emily Blunt, now crowned Oppenheimer’s latest triumph and her Oscar nomination personally, while the general public discovered her in 2006. And this change of status should be felt in the “story”. . Because Miranda, at the end of his career and facing the downfall of the paper’s press, was pitted against his former assistant/pain-killer, now well-placed in a wealthy group whose money would do his former boss great favors. .

Anne Hathaway not in the sequel?

Written by Aline Brosh McKenna, who wrote the first opus, the script deviates from the story of Lauren Weisberger’s second book, published in 2013, in which Andrea (Anne Hathaway) and Emily (Emily Blunt) get together around the wedding. magazine.

There is no mention of Anne Hathaway’s return at this time, and the intrigue that Puck News is talking about suggests that the sequel could be done without her character. Now we have to wait for the confirmation of the main stakeholders, and the first movie musical adaptation, directed by Elton John, will take place in London in October. Before moving to the cinema, as for Lolita, in spite of me?