The Devil Wears Prada Will Get a Sequel, But Did We Need One?

If you jumped for joy at the news that The devil wears Prada will soon have a sequel we feel like reassuring you, because you were not the only ones. There is something that boils inside us every time a film or a television series that has accompanied a particular phase of our life comes back to show us what “happened next”, but where does this boiling push come from? It is dictated from the initial enthusiasmfrom the desire to find out how the characters we have learned to love and for whom we have rooted are doing but, beyond everything, we can affirm with a certain serenity that Returns are almost never up to the originalsand that almost always the latent euphoria that accompanies the announcements turns into disappointment once the product has been viewed. This happens because often the sequels are decided based on hype alone and not because there is something new to tell, and it happens because seeing the aged protagonists forces us to look in the mirror, thinking about the fact that time has passed not only for the actors but also for us.

Nevertheless The devil wears Prada It has become a cult, one of the very few films of the 2000s to achieve a success and iconicity that we have rarely encountered in recent years: how much sense does this umpteenth operation nostalgia which led to critical and public flops as in the case of And Just Like That, Will & Grace And BH90210? According to what they anticipate Puck News And Variety, Disney is said to be working on a sequel developed by the screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna and from the producer Wendy Finerman and with Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt ready to reprise their roles as Miranda Priestly and her first assistant Emily Charton. According to initial rumors, Miranda should once again be at the center of everything, at the twilight of her career and struggling with the publishing crisis and, for this reason, in need of Emily, who in the meantime has become the manager of a luxury group.

And if fans everywhere are rejoicing despite Disney neither confirming nor denying the return of The devil wears Pradathere remains a significant doubt: the fact that Anne Hathaway may back out by choosing not to play Andrea Sachs again. «I don’t know if there could be a sequel”he had said to the microphones of the talk show The View. “The film was set in a different era. Now everything has gone digital, and that film focuses on the concept of producing a physical thing. Everything is different now.” On one side, in short, we have the amateurs, and on the other the realists who fear that the memory of a cult like The devil wears Prada be ruined by the need to cash in regardless of the fact that the author of the first book herself Lauren Weisberger published a sequel to her own story in 2013 (again, it was a way to cash in, considering that Weisberger has not been able to produce a bestseller since Miranda came into her life). In short, we are divided but, regardless of what happens, we can certainly say that jokes like those of cerulean and lapis or the new copy of the book of Harry Potter they will never come back, and we should make peace.