The Devil Wears Prada

Screenplay by

Peter Hedges

Revisions by

Howard Michael Gould Paul Rudnick

Don Roos

Current Revisions by

Aline Brosh McKenna

March 10, 2005

FADE I N

INT- CHATEAU -- FRANCE -- DAY

An e l e g a n t 17 th Century mansion a s h o r t d i s t a n c e from P a r i s . A d i n n e r i a s e t f o r about a hundred people. Everything i s p e r f e c t ; e x q u i s i t e f lowers , l i n e n s , s i l v e r . . . Anyone who's anyone i n t h e f a sh ion world is t h e r e . We see Lager fe ld ... Valent ino ... Marc Jzcobs. .. NIGEL KIPLING, a dapper man i n h i s l a t e 3 0 f s / e a r l y 401s , speaks a t a podium at t h e c e n t e r of t h e d a i s on one s i d e of t h e room.

Our POV i s from someone else on t h e d a i s s o we see NIGEL from t h e back.

NIGEL ... h e r name has become legend. Her magazine i s t h e B ib l e f o r anyone i n t e r e s t e d i n s t y l e , t a s t e and s o p h i s t i c a t i o n . Without a doubt one o f t h e most e l e g a n t women eve r t o walk t h e p l a n e t , I g ive you... Miranda P r i e s t l y .

Loud applauae r i n g s ou t . And from t h e back w e see MIRANDA ,- PRIESTLY approaching t h e podium. W e can on ly make o u t he r fancy

updo, t h e curves o f h e r cou tu re gown.

A s MIRANDA l i n g e r s , t ak ing i n t h e applauae.. . W e reverse t o see whose po in t of view we are watching from...

... ANDY BARNES, 2 0 ' 6 , p r e t t y , e l e g a n t l y p u t t o g e t h e r . She e t ands a few f e e t behind M I W D A .

She applauds , smil ing. Some of MIRANDA'S l i g h t s p i l l s onto ANDY.

MIRANDA starts t o t a l k and w e hea r a b r i e f SCREECH of feedback. The SCREECH d i s s o l v e s i n t o . . .

FLASH BACK TO:

EXT. MIDTOWN STREET -- DAY

... t h e SCREECH of a taxi, rounding a corner .

Six m o n t h s e a r l i e r . ANDY walks o u t of a subway s t a t i o n , c l u t c h i n g e p i e c e of paper wi th d i r e c t i o n s on it.

A S D Y looks nothing l i k e t h e po l i shed young woman from t h e cha teau . Her h a i r and makeup are c o l l e g e s t u d e n t simple. She wears h e r b e s t -- whi te s h i r t , b l u e s k i r t , comfortable shoes.