Devil Wears Prada 2 trailer
The trailer for The Devil Wears Prada 2 dropped and it’s already sparking style chatter because it features a new Lady Gaga and Doechii track called “Runway,” which gives the film an immediate pop‑culture runway heartbeat. Rumours about a fuller Gaga soundtrack—names like Madonna and Chappell Roan circulated on social—are fuelling excitement that the sequel could double as a fashion soundtrack moment. (x.com) (x.com)
The new trailer for *The Devil Wears Prada 2* did something trailers rarely do. It made the music the story. 20th Century Studios released a final trailer on April 6 that is built around “Runway,” a new original track by Lady Gaga and Doechii, and the studio’s own trailer copy treats the song as a selling point, not background decoration (20thcenturystudios.com, youtube.com). That matters because this sequel was already trading on nostalgia. The song gives it a second engine. The film itself has been in motion for a while. Disney began developing a sequel in July 2024, with original screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna returning, and the project kept the most important piece of the first movie intact by bringing back director David Frankel too (variety.com, variety.com). The studio says the new film opens May 1, 2026, with Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci all back in the world of Runway magazine (20thcenturystudios.com). That setup explains why the trailer landed so hard. People were already primed to revisit Miranda Priestly. They were not expecting Gaga and Doechii to turn the return into a pop event. The trailer also makes clear that the sequel is not simply replaying the first film in better clothes. Trade reporting has converged on the same premise: Miranda Priestly is now fighting the decline of print publishing, while Emily Charlton has become a powerful executive on the luxury side of fashion, holding the advertising money Miranda needs (variety.com, variety.com). Deadline’s read of the final trailer adds another wrinkle. Andy Sachs appears to be back at Runway as a features editor and may be helping Miranda contain a scandal that is dragging the magazine down (deadline.com). That is a better premise than simple reunion bait. It takes the original movie’s obsession with status and drops it into an industry that has lost some of its old power. That shift is why “Runway” feels so useful. The first *Devil Wears Prada* became a fashion classic before the algorithmic collapse of monoculture. A sequel arriving in 2026 needs to live in a different media ecosystem, where a trailer is also a music launch and a cast announcement is also a social clip. Variety reports that Gaga not only contributed the song but also appears in the film, marking her first major big-screen role since *Joker: Folie à Deux* (variety.com). That makes the soundtrack chatter less like fan overreach and more like a rational response to what the studio is plainly doing. The rumors about a larger Gaga-curated soundtrack are a different story. The social posts circulating names like Madonna and Chappell Roan may be good bait, but the reporting now only supports one confirmed new song: “Runway” by Gaga and Doechii (rollingstone.com, deadline.com). There is no solid evidence yet for a fuller all-star Gaga soundtrack. What is real is simpler and more interesting. A movie about the shrinking authority of a fashion magazine just found a way to borrow authority from pop music, and it did it with one song, one trailer, and a release date already locked for May 1 (20thcenturystudios.com, youtube.com).
