{"id":637732,"date":"2026-05-12T02:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/637732\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T02:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:51:08","slug":"fourth-wing-series-based-on-rebecca-yarros-books-officially-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/637732\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fourth Wing&#8217; Series Based on Rebecca Yarros Books Officially Happening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/prime-video\/\" id=\"auto-tag_prime-video_1\" data-tag=\"prime-video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prime Video<\/a> is taking another huge swing in the fantasy realm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Amazon-owned streamer has greenlit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/fourth-wing\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fourth-wing_1\" data-tag=\"fourth-wing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fourth Wing<\/a>, a series based on author Rebecca Yarros\u2019 mega-selling Empyrean romantasy novels; the show takes its title from the first book in the set. The project has been in development at Prime Video for about 2 1\/2 years. Amazon MGM Studios is producing along with Michael B. Jordan\u2019s Outlier Society banner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFourth Wing, from Entangled Publishing, hit shelves in 2023 and quickly became a best seller, winning both positive reviews and a large fan base that spread word on the BookTok segment of TikTok and other social media. The next two installments in the planned five-book series, Iron Flame and Onyx Storm, were also instant best sellers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe story centers on Violet Sorrengail, 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAmazon MGM acquired rights to the book series in 2023 and began developing it with Outlier Society, which has an overall series deal with the studio. Moira Walley-Beckett (Breaking Bad, Anne With an E) was initially hired as showrunner but left the show last year. Locke &amp; Key co-creator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/amazon-fourth-wing-tv-adaptation-new-showrunner-1236378811\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meredith Averill<\/a> took over as showrunner in September 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAverill is executive producing with Jordan and Elizabeth Raposo for Outlier Society; Yarros; Jonah Nolan, Lisa Joy and Athena Wickham of Kilter Films; and Liz Pelletier and Sherryl Clark of Premeditated, Entangled Publishing\u2019s sister company. Stefano Agosto, executive vp television at Outlier Society, is a co-EP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Video is taking another huge swing in the fantasy realm. The Amazon-owned streamer has greenlit Fourth Wing,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,65659,7048],"class_list":["post-637732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-fourth-wing","tag-prime-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}