The Devil Wears Prada 2 Couldn't Have Debuted At A Better Time Amid Bezos-Backed Met Gala

"The Devil Wears Prada 2," which eerily depicts a Jeff Bezos-like character, hit theaters mere days before this year's Bezos-sponsored Met Gala.Everett Collection/ Associated Press“The Devil Wears Prada 2” may be a fun trip down memory lane for longtime fans, but for the journalism world, its candid take on today’s media landscape was a bit unsettling, to say the least.Starring returning actors Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci, the sequel centered on Runway Magazine’s fight for survival after editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly (Streep) gets caught up in a major scandal.Andy Sachs (Hathaway), once her assistant and now a successful (and recently laid-off) journalist, is brought back to restore the publication to its former glory, unaware that tech billionaire Benji Barnes (Justin Theroux) plans to buy it for his girlfriend, Andy’s former colleague Emily (Blunt).Advertisement To many, Theroux’s character may sound like an obvious nod to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his foray into media, which has, so far, included buying and gutting The Washington Post and potentially eyeing Condé Nast (publisher of Vogue, which inspired Runway) as a wedding gift to his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, per mid-2025 reports.

Anna Wintour, Condé Nast’s chief content officer, seemingly denied those rumors last year.However, screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna told Variety, “We already had a script and were making the movie when the rumors [of Bezos considering an acquisition of Condé Nast] started happening.”“It wasn’t inspired by anything,” she added.

“But, we did say, ‘Whoa’ when it happened.”A rep for Blunt also told Variety that it was “absolutely not true” that her character was based on Sánchez Bezos.Advertisement Emily Blunt's character in "The Devil Wears Prada 2" has drawn comparisons to Lauren Sánchez Bezos, although a rep for the actor denied those rumors.Everett CollectionThe timing of the movie’s releas...