EXCLUSIVE: Count Crazy Ex-Girlfriend co-creator and star Rachel Bloom and Colin From Accounts co-creator, EP and star Patrick Brammall on the runway for 20th Century Studios’ The Devil Wear Prada 2.
The duo joined original stars Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci which has director David Frankel returning as well as scribe Aline Brosh McKenna. In fact, the sequel reps a reunion for McKenna and Bloom, as the two co-created Crazy Ex-Girlfriend together.
The sequel follows Streep’s Runway editor-in-chief, Miranda Priestly who is squaring off against her former assistant Emily Charlton (Blunt) who is now a big-time executive in fashion circles; the two competing for ad revenue.
Bloom and Brammall’s roles are being kept under wraps. They’re also starring with a new cast of characters including Kenneth Branagh as Priestly’s husband, Lucy Liu, Justin Theroux, BJ Novak, Caleb Hearon, Tracie Thoms, Helen J Shen, Tibor Feldman, Conrad Ricamora, Pauline Chalamet and Simone Ashley.
Pic’s original producers Wendy Finerman and EP Karen Rosenfelt are back. Production is underway for a May 1, 2026 theatrical release.
Bloom won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her work on the CW’s comedy series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which she co-created, executive produced and headlined. Her one-woman stage show, Death, Let Me Do My Show, which was nominated for a 2024 Drama Desk Award, was filmed for a Netflix special, which is now streaming. Her recent acting credits also include HBO Max’s series Julia and the Paramount+ reboot of Frasier, as well as in the Netflix films Your Place or Mine and The School for Good and Evil. It was also recently announced that Bloom and her husband Dan Gregor are writing Do You Want Kids?, a half-hour comedy, which is currently in development at ABC.
Bloom co-starred in the Critics’ Choice nominated Hulu comedy series, Reboot (2022), alongside Keegan-Michael Key, Johnny Knoxville, and Paul Reiser. Her upcoming projects include guest starring in season 2 of HBO’s Julia as well as appearing in the new Muppets Mayhem Musical Series on Disney+. Other notable TV credits include IFC’s Bar Fight!, Portlandia, iZombie (2018), iCarly (2022), Rupaul’s Drag Race, and The Tony Awards. The actress is repped by WME, Sugar23, YMU Entertainment, and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis,
Brammall is represented by Atlas Artists, UTA, Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern, and RGM Artists in Australia. His Paramount+ series Colin From Accounts received two Gotham TV Award wins for Breakthrough Comedy Series and Outstanding Performance in a Comedy Series for Harriet Dyer in its first season.
Brammall is starring in Apple TV+’s upcoming crime thriller The Dispatcher, adapted from the Ryan David Jahn book of the same name and produced by 60Forty Films (SLOW HORSES). Brammall will star as police detective Ian Hunt, whose life fell apart ten years ago when his young daughter Maggie disappeared without a trace. Now working as a police dispatcher, the only thing that has kept him going is his implacable refusal to accept that she might be gone forever.
Brammall currently voices Uncle Rad on the Peabody Award-winning children’s show Bluey, and he recently portrayed Andy Bouchard on CBS’ Evil.” Previously, Brammall developed No Activity for Jungle Entertainment in Australia and later adapted it for CBS.