{"id":804053,"date":"2026-10-16T03:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T03:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/804053\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T03:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T03:12:16","slug":"fourth-wing-tv-series-casts-its-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/804053\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fourth Wing&#8221; TV Series Casts Its Leads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/fourth-wing-tv-series-casts-its-leads.jpg\" data-caption=\"Amazon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/fourth-wing-tv-series-casts-its-leads.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"fourth-wing-tv-series-casts-its-leads\"\/><\/a>Amazon<\/p>\n<p>Esther McGregor (\u201cWe Were Liars\u201d) has been cast as Violet Sorrengail, while Emilio Sakraya (\u201cThose About To Die\u201d) will play Xaden Riorson in the upcoming TV series adaptation of Rebecca Yarros\u2019 book series \u201cFourth Wing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The live-action adaptation of the mega-selling Empyrean romantasy novels, has been in development at Amazon since 2023 and has Michael B. Jordan\u2019s Outlier Society company set to produce.<\/p>\n<p>The story centers on Violet, a twenty-year-old woman whose plans for a quiet life are upended when her mother, a military general, orders her to join the brutal Basgiath War College and become one of several hundred candidates vying to become dragon riders \u2013 the elites of their kingdom of Navarre.<\/p>\n<p>Moira Walley-Beckett (\u201cBreaking Bad,\u201d \u201cAnne with an E\u201d) was originally set as showrunner until a year ago when \u201cLocke &amp; Key\u201d co-creator and \u201cThe Haunting of Hill House\u201d producer Meredith Averill took over.<\/p>\n<p>Averill is executive producing with Jordan, Elizabeth Raposo, Jonah Nolan, Lisa Joy, Athena Wickham, Liz Pelletier and Sherryl Clark.  The project has a series order at the streamer with former \u201cWestworld\u201d showrunner Lisa Joy to direct the first episode of the series.<\/p>\n<p>There are five books in the series with only three published so far \u2013 \u201cFourth Wing,\u201d \u201cIron Flame\u201d and \u201cOnyx Storm\u201d. That third book reportedly sold 2.7 million copies within the first week.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/creative-content\/tv-shows\/fourth-wing-show-violet-xaden-actors-esther-mcgregor-emilio-sakraya\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Wrap<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon Esther McGregor (\u201cWe Were Liars\u201d) has been cast as Violet Sorrengail, while Emilio Sakraya (\u201cThose About To&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-804053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}