Not long after Rebecca Yarros’ Fourth Wing took the reading world by storm when it arrived in May 2023, the book was optioned for a television series adaptation. The news came just before the second book in The Empyrean series Iron Flame published in November 2023.
The show remains in early stages of development, but progress has been made since the announcement of the adaptation, the biggest being that the project was officially handed a series order in May 2026.
Read on for everything we know about the ‘Fourth Wing’ TV series:
Who is behind the adaptation of Fourth Wing into a show?
Amazon MGM Studios optioned the rights to the first book in Rebecca Yarros’ The Empyrean series, and Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society production company will produce the series alongside Lisa Joy’s Kilter Films and Premediated Productions. Joy serves as executive producer, and she will direct the pilot episode.
Does the Fourth Wing TV series have a showrunner yet?
Deadline learned in late September that Wednesday Season 2 executive producer Meredith Averill was in final negotiations to join the series adaptation as writer and executive producer. She has since been confirmed as showrunner in the latest update from Amazon’s 2026 Upfronts presentation.
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Moira Walley-Beckett (Breaking Bad, Anne with an E) was originally tapped as showrunner of the series, but then Agatha All Along and WandaVision creator Jac Schaeffer signed a deal with Amazon MGM Studios and entered discussions to helm the series as writer, executive producer and showrunner.
What is Fourth Wing about?
Fourth Wing follows twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail as she leaves the life of a Scribe behind at her mother’s demand that she become a dragon rider. At the order of her mother, who is a General in the military of Navarre, Violet enters the brutal ranks of Basgiath War College, which trains up-and-coming riders through the Graduate or Die method.
In the books, Violet first looks to her old friend Dain Aetos when she gets into Basgiath, but the mysterious Xaden Riorson also has a smoldering gaze locked on her constantly. Violet also has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), which author Rebecca Yarros has. The condition affects the body’s connective tissue.
Who will play Violet and Xaden in the Fourth Wing TV series?
Esther McGregor will portray the 20-year-old Violet Sorrengail, and Emilio Sakraya will portray Xaden in the series.
Is Fourth Wing a series?
Yes, Iron Flame continues the saga, and it arrived the same year as Fourth Wing. The book series has a five-book arc planned, and the third installment, Onyx Storm arrived on January 21, 2025. What seems to be an in-between novella installment of sorts that will arrive before the fourth book in Yarros’ quintet has been teased by the author herself after readers got past her stealth mode and found it through pre-order.
Will there be separate seasons after Fourth Wing?
Deadline was told that developing a separate installment based on each book in the series is possible, should the first season be successful.