The Devil Wears Prada 2: Kenneth Branagh joins cast as sequel begins filming | Movies

Kenneth Branagh is becoming a member of the unique solid of The Satan Wears Prada for the much-anticipated sequel which begins filming this week.The actor-writer-director will play the husband of Meryl Streep’s vicious vogue journal editor Miranda Priestly. Streep returns together with Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci.Information of the manufacturing was introduced on Instagram with a teaser that includes strains from the unique.The sequel, once more directed by David Frankel, will reportedly see Priestly coping with the collapse of the journal business, now compelled to construct bridges along with her one-time assistant Emily (Blunt) who’s the pinnacle of a luxurious model and its promoting spend.“Why are Meryl and I so imply to one another in each film we do?” Blunt lately mentioned when speaking in regards to the movie. “We at all times have beef with one another. I don’t know what it’s. Let’s hope we treatment it. I’m undecided.”Blunt will quickly be seen alongside Dwayne Johnson within the fact-based UFC drama The Smashing Machine and main Steven Spielberg’s untitled thriller out subsequent summer time.The movie will mark Streep’s first movie function since 2021’s Don’t Look Up.The unique 2006 comedy, primarily based on the novel by Lauren Weisberger, remodeled $326m on the world field workplace and scored Streep a finest actress nomination. Weisberger wrote a sequel novel, Revenge Wears Prada, in 2013 and the movie was was a stage musical, premiering on the West Finish in 2024 to middling opinions.Branagh was final seen within the Agatha Christie adaptation A Haunting in Venice. Final 12 months, he completed manufacturing on the psychological thriller The Final Disturbance of Madeline Hynde, a movie he’s directing with Jodie Comer starring.The Satan Wears Prada 2 is about for launch in summer time 2026.