The Prime Video adaptation of Rebbeca Yarros’ bestselling fantasy series Fourth Wing has cast Esther McGregor as Violet Sorrengail and Emilio Sakraya as Xaden Riorson.
The upcoming television adaptation of Fourth Wing has found its two leads in Emilio Sakraya and Esther McGregor.
The Prime Video show is set in Yarros’ fantasy world, which follows Violet as she enters the brutal Basgiath War College at the behest of her mother. Despite being well on her way to becoming a historian, instead she joins hundreds of candidates fighting to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.
The hazardous training programme sees her collide with the mysterious and brooding Xaden. But with more cadets than dragons, there is just one rule at the War College: graduate or die.
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Where you’ve seen Esther McGregor and Emilio Sakraya before
McGregor starred in Prime Video’s adaptation of E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars as Mirren Sinclair. Her other on screen appearances include films such as Babygirl and Bleeding Love, which she starred in alongside her father and sister Clara McGregor, as well as Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi.
She is currently shooting Life is Strange, a new Amazon series based on the video game of the same name.
Meanwhile, German actor Sakraya is known for roles in Rhinegold, Tribes of Europa and Warrior Nun. He recently finished filming the third season of One Piece on Netflix, in which he plays Koza, the leader of a rebel army. He has been one of the main choices for Xaden Riorson among fans of the series.
What do we know about the Prime Video series so far?
Fourth Wing is the first book in The Empyrean series and is followed by Iron Flame and Onyx Storm. Yarros published novella Threshing Day, which tells 13 stories within the universe, earlier this year. Books four and five have also been confirmed, though there have been no title or release date announcements so far.
Amazon MGM bought the rights for TV development of the show in 2023, but only officially greenlit the project in May. If the first series is successful, there are plans to adapt the rest of the novels across multiple seasons.
Fourth Wing is being produced by Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society, Premeditated Productions and Jonathan Nolan and Joy’s Kilter Films. Author Yarros is attached as an executive producer, with Meredith Averill to serve as as writer and showrunner.