Best-Selling Book, Fourth Wing, Being Adapted for TV
Exciting news for all Fourth Wing fans: the popular BookTok phenomenon, is being adapted for television. It was announced today that the rights to Rebecca Yarros’ hit series were picked up by Amazon MGM Studios and Michael B. Jordan‘s Outlier Society. While Rebecca Yarros won’t be in the writing room she will serve as an executive producer for the series.
For those who haven’t read Fourth Wing, you enter the brutal and elite world of Basgiath War College where there is only one rule: Graduate or Die. Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail is expected to live a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general― her tough-as-talons mother―has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.
If the fire-breathing beasts don’t kill her, one of her fellow riders just might. Suspense, action, romance, and dragons blend in a propulsive fantasy adventure from NYT bestselling author Rebecca Yarros.
Fourth Wing, the first book in The Empyrean series, garnered a lot of attention on the book side of Tiktok at the beginning of 2023. Her publisher sent out advanced reader copies and it blew up on the social media platform. When the book finally released on May 2nd, it was hard to come by and sold out. As of August 2023, almost 400,000 copies had been sold.
Yarros took to her Instagram to drop the big reveal, saying:
“I’m so humbled and thrilled to announce that FOURTH WING has been optioned and is currently in development for a TV series by Amazon MGM Studios with Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society producing!!! They’re an ABSOLUTELY incredible team, and I can’t wait to see their adaptation of Fourth Wing brought to life! I have all the faith in the world in them!”
The New York Times best-selling author also let it be known on Instagram that she has known about this since December 2022. She also released the same information on her TikTok account and she let fans in the comments know, “..Film rights sold months before publication! It’s been a wild ride!”
The Fourth Wing Universe is Expanding
The second book in the series, Iron Flame, will be hitting shelves on November 7th and fans will be happy to know that it and the remaining 3 books in the series were also picked up by Amazon. Yarros has to be thrilled that fans are just as excited as she is to see this incredible fantasy world come to life on television. While we do not have any news of casting or releases we will share those details with you as they become available.
Check out Rebecca Yarros’ best-selling series, starting with book one Fourth Wing, and the upcoming sequel Iron Flame to get all the juicy details before the series drops.
About Rebecca Yarros
Rebecca Yarros is the #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of over fifteen novels including Fourth Wing and In the Likely Event, with multiple-starred Publishers Weekly reviews and a Kirkus Best Book of the Year. She loves military heroes and has been blissfully married to hers for over twenty years.
She’s the mother of six children and is currently surviving the teenage years with two of her four hockey-playing sons. When she’s not writing, you can find her at the hockey rink or sneaking in some guitar time while guzzling coffee. She and her family live in Colorado with their stubborn English bulldogs, two feisty chinchillas, and a Maine Coon cat named Artemis, who rules them all.
Having fostered and then adopted their youngest daughter who is nonverbal and on the autism spectrum, Rebecca is passionate about helping children in the foster system through her nonprofit, One October, which she co-founded with her husband in 2019. To learn more about their mission to better the lives of kids in foster care, visit www.oneoctober.org. To catch up on Rebecca’s latest releases and upcoming novels visit www.RebeccaYarros.com.
Kristin Sauceda
A bibliophile geek who enjoys reading both novels and comics but has always had a love of video games. She has been working her way through classic games she didn’t have a chance to play like Mass Effect, Uncharted, and Dragon Age.
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