After years of endless speculation, conflicting reports from its stars, and a delightful on-stage reunion at last year’s SAG Awards, those of us who still worship at the feet of the cult classic that is The Devil Wears Prada finally have the news we’ve been waiting for: At last, nearly 19 years later, a sequel is in the works.

If you’re getting whiplash, you’re not the only one. Back in October 2022, during a red carpet interview, Anne Hathaway told Entertainment Tonight categorically that “there’s not going to be a sequel. It’s not gonna happen. We can’t do it.” Even more recently, in April 2024, when asked about the possibility of a sequel by V Magazine, she reiterated that it was “probably not” going to happen, though she was notably less definitive in shutting down the rumors. “We all love each other and if somebody could come up with a way to do it, I think we’d all be crazy not to,” she said. “But there’s a huge difference in the world now with technology, and one of the things about that particular story is it was about producing a physical object. Now with so much being digital, it would just be very different. Maybe me, Stanley, Emily, Meryl, Dave Frankel, Patricia Field… we should just all do something else together. That’d be fun.”

But now, it looks like that particular gang—or, at least, most of them—will be reuniting for a follow-up film after all. Variety reported last year that Disney was in early development on a sequel, with the original film’s screenwriter, Aline Brosh McKenna, in talks to pen the next chapter. The storyline would follow “Miranda Priestly as she navigates her career amid the decline of traditional magazine publishing and faces off against Blunt’s character, Emily Charlton, now a high-powered executive for a luxury group with advertising dollars that Priestly desperately needs.”

Puck, which was first to break the story, added that both Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt had signed on to return, alongside The Devil Wears Prada’s producer Wendy Finerman—though no stars have officially been announced. According to Deadline, David Frankel could also be back in the director’s chair.