Baker suited for 'Prada' 'Devil' gets a leading man

From:Variety
Date:Sep. 15, 2005
By MICHAEL FLEMING

Fox 2000 has fitted Simon Baker with the male lead in "The Devil Wears Prada," the David Frankel-directed adaptation of the novel by Lauren Weisberger.
Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway have already been cast.

Scripted by Aline Brosh McKenna, pic is about a small-town girl who gets a job working for a major fashion magazine. Baker will play a writer at the mag who tries to help the young woman survive life in the big city.

Weisberger worked at Vogue, and the editor character Streep plays is said to be based on mag's Anna Wintour. Pic will shoot in New York this fall.

Baker, last seen in the George Romero-directed "Land of the Dead" and "The Ring Two," just wrapped "Bloom," a romantic comedy for Focus Features co-starring Sanaa Lathan.

FromVariety