Christopher Nolan Weighs In on The Devil Wears Prada 2 With an Unexpected Verdict
Two decades after Andy Sachs walked out on Miranda Priestly, The Devil Wears Prada 2 struts back into a digitized Runway with Emily Charlton as a rival — and Christopher Nolan has weighed in.
If you ever thought you'd hear Christopher Nolan give his take on The Devil Wears Prada 2, well, here we are. Because apparently, nothing is beneath the director who once made Batman gloomy and space travel existential. The sequel to that fashion industry showdown is finally in theaters (yep, twenty years later!), and now Nolan's actually watched it—and he has thoughts.
Nolan Has Entered the Chat
So here’s the setup: The Devil Wears Prada 2 brings back Anne Hathaway as Andy Sachs and Emily Blunt as Emily Charlton. They’re now on opposite sides at Runway magazine, which is apparently battling the digital apocalypse, because nothing says 'timely sequel' like dragging a print magazine into 2026. The movie dropped on May 1, and you can’t blame Nolan for being curious—after all, Hathaway and Blunt both worked with him in the past.
Nolan stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert this week. He talked about his new project, (The Odyssey—yes, the ancient Greek poem, but with even more A-list casting than usual), working with Tom Holland, and then Colbert asked if he'd seen Hathaway's latest. Nolan didn't play coy:
"I watched it last night. It was fabulous. With Emily Blunt as well. Terrific."
That’s about as effusive as Nolan gets outside of shooting people into black holes, so take the endorsement seriously.
The Nolan Cinematic Universe?
The interview didn't stop there. Colbert noticed that Nolan’s current squad—Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson—have all done superhero movies. So Nolan, being Nolan, connected the dots from Spider-Man and Batman to... Homer? Stay with me.
According to Nolan, the Marvel and DC universes ‘owe a lot’ to Homer’s epics. His point: these mythic, larger-than-life stories (caped crusaders, gods, whatever) go all the way back to ancient Greece. And in an actual Nolan twist, he threw in that Homer’s identity was a mystery, making Homer basically the 'George Lucas' of the ancient world. We’re in deep film nerd territory here.
The Odyssey—Not the One Your High School English Teacher Made You Read
Nolan’s The Odyssey is slated to land in summer 2026 and the cast is frankly ridiculous:
- Matt Damon is Odysseus (sure, why not?)
- Anne Hathaway plays Penelope (she and Nolan clearly can’t quit each other)
- Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, Mia Goth, Jon Bernthal, Lupita Nyong'o, Charlize Theron, Elliot Page, and Benny Safdie fill out the gods/mortals/monsters/etc
Not saying the original Greek myth had this much star power, but it does now.
So what did we learn from all this? The Devil Wears Prada 2 has the Nolan stamp of approval if you care about that sort of thing. Also, if you ever needed proof that superheroes, leather boots, and Greek bards exist in a shared universe, Nolan's your guy.