Lady Gaga isn’t moving at a glacial pace! The Oscar and Grammy winner is set to star in the next installment of The Devil Wears Prada and is also set to appear in a fashion film while on her Mayhem Ball tour.
After four nights at London’s sold-out O2 Arena, Gaga was spotted by fans in Milan, where she is currently filming the sequel to the 2006 hit comedy starring Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci. “The Devil Wears Prada 2” marks the multi-hyphenated superstar’s first big screen appearance since “Joker: Folie à Deux.” Earlier this year, Gaga appeared in a cameo on Netflix’s “Wednesday.” The production pit stop comes before Gaga is scheduled to play at Stockholm’s Avicii Arena on Sunday night.
The Devil Wears Prada, based on Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel, depicts aspiring journalist Andrea “Andy” Sachs (Hathaway) who is hired by the luxury fashion magazine Runway, but is at the mercy of strict editor-in-chief Miranda Priestley (Streep) and her whims and chilling gaze. (After all, it’s a job where “a million girls get killed”!) This creepy book is romanized. Weisberger briefly worked as Anna Wintour’s assistant at Vogue.
Plot details for the sequel have yet to be confirmed, but the story will reportedly follow Miranda as she navigates her career amidst the decline of traditional magazine publishing. Miranda confronts Emily (Blunt), her former assistant. Emily is now a powerful executive at a luxury group with advertising dollars that Priestley desperately needs. It’s unclear how Hathaway’s Andy will be involved in the story. At the end of the first film, she quits Runway and takes a job at a newspaper, but now she appears to be returning to the fashion industry.
Recently, Streep and Tucci were spotted in the front row of the Dolce & Gabbana show during Milan Fashion Week. There, Streep (who plays Miranda) and Wintour created a huge buzz as the two fashion divas met for the first time.
David Frankel and Aline Brosh McKenna, who directed and wrote the original film, respectively, will return for the sequel. Producer Karen Rosenfelt will also return. Newcomers to the franchise include Kenneth Branagh, who plays Miranda’s husband, as well as Lucy Liu, Justin Theroux, BJ Novak, Pauline Chalamet, and Simone Ashley. Thibault Feldman and Tracy Thoms reprise their roles.
20th Century Studios plans to release the film on May 1, 2026, approximately 20 years after the original release.
