As a Sequel to ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Looms, What Does a Good Movie About the Magazine Business Actually Look Like?

It’s a notably rough time to work in Hollywood—that is, apparently, unless you’re an executive tasked with rebooting once-successful movies and TV shows. For those types, business is booming: Practically every piece of pop-culture-defining media from the aughts has been resurrected recently, from Gilmore Girls to Sex and the City to The L Word. So, maybe it’s only natural that a sequel to a little 2006 film by the name of The Devil Wears Prada is reportedly in the works at Disney.

The plot will allegedly follow Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly, legendary editor of Runway magazine, as she “navigates her career amid the decline of traditional magazine publishing and faces off against Blunt’s character, now a high-powered executive for a luxury group with advertising dollars that Priestly desperately needs.” Hmm, a movie about how there’s no money left in digital or print media? Sounds like something I can really escape into!

As much as I’ve enjoyed my many hungover Sunday-morning rewatches of The Devil Wears Prada over the years, I have to admit that I don’t see a lot of my experience at Vogue—or any other women’s media publication I’ve worked for—reflected in it. Mostly, this is a very good thing, although I’m not going to lie: I wish the notion of just “popping into the closet” and coming out with Manolos in every color of the rainbow were real. (Don’t cry for me, though; I haven’t paid for candles in five years.)

However, I still take solace in the few movies and TV shows that do capture at least part of the fashion-girlie experience. If the powers that be at Disney know that’s good for them, they’ll revisit these and take note: