The Devil Wears Prada 2

Twenty years on from the events of the first film, the fashion world Andy Sachs once fled has changed around Miranda Priestly — and Runway, the magazine she built into a cultural instrument, now requires rescue rather than mere survival. Frankel structures the sequel as a deal-making drama inside a dying industry, with Emily Charlton's ascent to luxury-brand power turning what was once a hierarchy of humiliation into something closer to a negotiation among equals.

The casting geometry does most of the positioning work: Hathaway, Streep, Blunt, and Tucci returning to roles that the first film fixed clearly in the culture, now repositioned by where each character has landed.