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Basgiath Bound! All the Latest Updates About the ‘Fourth Wing’ TV Show
Dragon riders, get ready! A Fourth Wing TV show is coming. Amazon MGM studios and Outlier Society have optioned the rights to Rebecca Yarros’ mega-hit romantasy novel, and they’ve already appointed a showrunner. We expect that casting news will be imminent, and then before you know it, the show will be in production.
Fourth Wing is set at Basgiath War College in the fictional kingdom of Navarre. Every young person in the kingdom attends Basgiath under one of the four quadrants: riders, healers, scribes, and infantry. Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail always expected to go into the scribe quadrant and follow in her late father’s studious footsteps, but six months before Conscription Day, her mother says that Violet will instead be joining the deadly riders quadrant like her older siblings. The book begins on Violet’s first day, surviving the harrowing parapet entrance exam and being thrust into a training program that will test everything she knows about her kingdom and her own strength.
On the one hand, Violet has her childhood best friend, Dain Aetos, looking out for her and a group of instantly loyal best friends. On the other hand, she’s also under the watchful eye of Xaden Riorson, the son of a former Navarre opposition leader, who hates everything Violet represents. Violet needs every resource and cunning trick in the book to make it through her first year at Basgiath and join the war effort against Poromiel. She also has to figure out how to ride a dragon without dying. No big deal!
Fourth Wing became a TikTok sensation after its debut release in April 2023. It’s a fast-paced book that’s Hunger Games-level addictive, but A Court of Thorns and Roses-level spicy. Fans cannot wait to see how Violet’s intense story is brought to the screen. Here’s everything we know about the adaptation so far.
What is the status of the Fourth Wing TV show?
Fourth Wing is currently in development at Amazon MGM Studios. It is also being produced by Michael B. Jordan‘s Outlier Society production company, though the actor is not directly involved in the series. Amazon MGM announced the adaptation in October 2023 after the conclusion of the writers’ strike.
Who will star in the Fourth Wing TV show?
No one has officially been cast in the Fourth Wing TV series yet. Yarros has said she only has one casting requirement for the series, which is that they don’t whitewash Xaden Riorson. She’s otherwise keeping quiet about her dream casting for the series because she’s hoping a new generation of actors will bring the characters to life. We were not that patient.
Who is behind the Fourth Wing TV show?
MGM and Outlier Society have appointed Emmy-winning writer Moira Walley-Beckett to executive produce and serve as showrunner for the series. TV critics know Walley-Beckett for co-writing the “Ozymandias” episode of Breaking Bad. Romance fans will better know Walley-Beckett for executive producing Anne with an E for Netflix. This all means she knows how to create high-scale drama as well as create the romantic tension necessary to satisfy Fourth Wing fans.
Where can I watch the Fourth Wing TV show?
Technically, Fourth Wing doesn’t have a streaming home yet. But Amazon owns both MGM and Prime Video, so you can feel safe betting the house that Fourth Wing will end up on the latter service. However, the show is still in development, and we won’t even have an estimate of a premiere date until it goes into production. So sit tight, but the show is coming!
Will the show cover the entire Empyrean series?
That’s to be determined! According to Deadline, who first reported that Fourth Wing was being adapted into a TV show, there’s “potential for each book in Yarros’ series to be developed into its own separate TV project.” This is interesting because Fourth Wing leads directly into the sequel novel Iron Flame, but the outlet makes it sound like the second book could be its own show. The same would be true for Onyx Storm, which comes out in January 2025. Yarros is also prepping two additional books to wrap up Violet’s story.
