{"id":128314,"date":"2025-11-11T23:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T23:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/128314\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T23:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T23:10:07","slug":"rebecca-yarros-book-in-the-works-at-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/128314\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Yarros Book in the Works at Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tComing on top of an intense, high-value bidding war, Amazon MGM has landed the movie rights to The Last Letter, a romantic drama novel by Fourth Wing author Rebecca Yarros<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tJournalist-turned-screenwriter Anna Klassen is in final talks to write the adaptation, with\u00a0Brian Grazer and Jeb Brody of Imagine Entertainment in talks to produce. <\/p>\n

\n\tYarros is a phenomenon in the book work, taking the genre of romantasy into the mainstream with her Empyrean book series, which began with 2023\u2019s Fourth Wing and that has now sold over 12 million copies. Letter, which is not a romantic fantasy but is rather a straight-up romance, is one of her earlier books and was re-released this year, hitting best-seller status and re-kindling Hollywood interest.<\/p>\n

\n\tLetter was a weepie (oh, what a weepie!) that told of an Army vet who, fulfilling his promise to a fallen friend and soldier, travels to a bucolic Colorado town to help take care of his buddy\u2019s sister and her two children. But oh, the drama. The man harbors a soul-crushing secret, one of the kids falls ill with cancer, and the woman feels she can\u2019t trust this gorgeous dark and brooding man (oh, who also comes with a loyal dog).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe novel lit up BookTok and book clubs this year for the story\u2019s almost too intense emotions. That didn\u2019t stop studios and producers from engaging in a hot pursuit. Five companies jumped in, with Amazon, Netflix, and Paramount, the latter coming off this past weekend\u2019s strong performance of romantic drama Regretting You, making muscular offers with ballooning prices and even ticking clocks to respond.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the end, Amazon came on top with an option in the $200,000 range and a potential $2 million purchase price and hefty backends, according to multiple sources. Yarros will also act as an executive producer via her recently formed company, Full Measures, named after her first book.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s an impressive deal for something that is intended to be a mid-budget adult drama. But it speaks to the appetite for something that give of vibes of The Notebook, the hit romantic drama that starred Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, or Dear John, which starred Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried, and the growing power of Yarros.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis isn\u2019t the author\u2019s first time around the Hollywood rodeo. Fourth Wing is in development at Amazon as a television adaptation with Michael B. Jordan\u2019s Outlier Society, Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy\u2019s Kilter Films, and Premeditated Productions. <\/p>\n

\n\tKlassen is becoming a go-to scribe in the romance space. She adapted the upcoming Anna Todd novel\u00a0The Last Sunrise, which is currently in production at Amazon with Maia Reficco and Eva Longoria starring. A former journalist who wrote for Newsweek,\u00a0The\u00a0Daily Beast and Bustle, she launched her screenwriting career when with her spec, When Lightning Strikes, which centered on Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling and landed at\u00a0the\u00a0top of\u00a0the\u00a02017 Black List.<\/p>\n

\n\tBrody and Joyce Choi will oversee the project at Imagine, the prolific banner that recently made Luca Guadagnino\u2019s After the Hunt and Ron Howard\u2019s Eden.<\/p>\n

\n\tYarros is repped by Untitled and Weintraub Tobin. Klassen is repped by WME, Untitled and Myman Greenspan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coming on top of an intense, high-value bidding war, Amazon MGM has landed the movie rights to The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,20277],"class_list":["post-128314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-rebecca-yarros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}