Fighting for the rights

Even before ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ book was finished, 20th Century Fox knew they just had to adapt Lauren Weisberger’s work for the silver screen.

After reading the first 100 pages of the novel’s manuscript in 2003, studio executive vice president Carla Hacken was determined to buy the rights for the story, and managed to get the movie into production as soon as possible.

She recalled: “The idea was so strong, the concept so clear and so enticing, that we thought we would be able to figure out a movie from it no matter what the eventual manuscript turned out to be.”