Depending on your outlook, I’ve got good news and bad news for fans of Rebecca Yarros’s massively popular Empyrean series, colloquially known as the Fourth Wing books: It’s officially being adapted into a TV series, with Michael B. Jordan executive producing. Amazon Prime Video announced this week that it’s moving ahead with a full series order based on the romantasy series, which follows Violet Sorrengail as trains to become a dragon rider at the competitive, elite, and brutal Basgiath War College.
This is good news, of course, for fans who want to see their beloved characters brought to life and watch all the dragon battles, violent fights, and ~spicy moments~ they’ve been picturing in their heads. But others seem to see this as potentially bad news because, well…what if it’s bad? Only three of Yarros’s five planned books in the series are out so far, and we saw with Game of Thrones what happens when cameras start rolling on a show for a series that hasn’t been completed yet.
To them, I say: Be open minded. The show is still in early development, but signs look promising so far. In addition to Jordan—fresh off his Oscar success with Sinners—the executive producers include Lisa Joy, who has worked on massive and popular sci-fi projects like Westworld and Fallout. Joy will also direct the first episode. Fantasy-TV veteran Meredith Averill will showrun, and she wrote the adaptation, per Deadline.
Everyone on board seems to understand the stakes are high too. While promoting the project at Amazon’s 2026 Upfronts, Joy said the team’s goal is “to deliver the series this fandom deserves.” And Yarros herself added, “These are the people who understand that a story means to its readers, and they’re passionate about the book, which is why I trust them completely.”
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