The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026)

Plot of The Devil Wears Prada 2: Things have gone downhill in Runway, the magazine headed up by Miranda Priestly after it has featured an organisation accused of sweatshop labour. Irv, the owner of the magazine hires Andy Sachs, an awarded journalist who had started out at Runway 20 years earlier, order to rescue the magazine’s image. She and Miranda are immediately at odds, her talent is writing long features which Miranda says nobody reads. Print magazines are on their last legs. In order to initiate the rescue Andy gets an interview with Dior now headed by Emily, once a fellow initiate at Runway. As things stabilise Irv drops dead leaving the magazine in the gift of his son, who takes steps to economise. To save the magazine Andy and Emily set up a buy out in secret and meanwhile the plans are unfolded for the magazine’s annual splurge in Milan, which involves a dinner and a celebrity fashion show. When it all seems to be settled Andy and Emily reveal the plan to Miranda, who accuses Emily of planning to sack her. She is right. How will it all pan out?

Content: No sex or nudity. There might have been a bit of drinking at the posh outings and occasional meetings in restaurants. We see Andy receive a journalistic award and complain that most of her colleagues have been sacked by email. She goes to work at Runway, befriended by Nigel, Miranda’s assistant and shunned by Miranda herself. She is tempted by a possible contract to write a biog of Miranda. They interview Emily at Dior and later get an appointment to meet Sasha Barnes, divorced from Benji Barnes who is now Emily’s boyfriend. Sasha is unfeasibly rich and later important to the story. The whole entourage embarks to Milan, which features a lot with people coming and going in expensive chauffeur driven cars. The dinner takes place and the fashion show with a song by Lady Gaga. It is all super bling. Then Andy and Emily conspire to take over the magazine and so on.

A View: I’m going to say right up front that I liked it. There are a couple of quite mute messages, the first about sweat shops and the second about the consolidation of the print media. Both are real. Back in the day I used to write for nautical magazines, now I would be unable to speak to an editor. Let’s face it, if you are reading this it is because I have chosen to write it just for my own amusement. But back to TDWP2 (as no-one is calling it). It cost $100 million and it looked it. Andy’s possible romance with a charming property developer, oxymoron or not, doesn’t seem to go anywhere but other than that what was not to like? We hope it will make money, to encourage the others.

Fun Fact: It has a terrific soundtrack culminating in Lady Gaga singing at the Milan fling. That alone worth the price of a theatre ticket.