Fourth Wing TV Show Reveals New Details That Will Have You Flying High
Booktok's fantasies are slowly becoming a reality.
Amazon MGM Studios and production company Outlier Society have taken another step toward adapting Rebecca Yarros' book Fourth Wing into a TV show by officially naming Moira Walley Beckett as its showrunner.
The Breaking Bad producer—who won three Emmys for the show—will oversee the production and writing of Fourth Wing, which follows Violet Sorrengail as she joins the "graduate or die" Rider Quadrant at Navarre's Basgiath War College and competes to the death to become a dragon rider and eventually a soldier.
"We can’t wait to bring this series to life," Outlier Society wrote in a July 22 Instagram post announcing Beckett's role. "See you all at Basgiath!"
And the production company—founded by Michael B. Jordan—wasn't the only one celebrating the update. Yarros reshared the good news on her Instagram Story, while Beckett expressed her gratitude for the opportunity, writing on Instagram, "I am SO EXCITED to be adapting brilliant @rebeccayarros FOURTH WING into series!"
Concluding her message, the Anne With an E creator thanked Outlier and Amazon for trusting her to "bring this incredible book series to life!"
The Fourth Wing cast and release date have not been revealed.
As for what else is in store for the TV version of Fourth Wing? Yarros was previously revealed as an executive producer on the show alongside Entangled Publishing's Liz Pelletier.
Additionally, Fourth Wing won't be the only one of the author's novels that will get the book-to-screen treatment. In fact, the streaming platform has already acquired the rights for sequels Iron Flame and Onyx Storm (out Jan. 21, 2025), as well as the remaining two books planned for the five-part Empryean series, according to Deadline.
For Yarros, a better team couldn't have been picked to tell her stories. As she put it on Instagram in October, "I have all the faith in the world in them!"
She added, "Words can't portray just how excited I am and how grateful to work with such amazing people!"
While you wait for Fourth Wing to arrive on your TV screen, read on to catch up on more books that are being adapted into shows...
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