Everything We Know So Far About the ‘Fourth Wing’ TV Show on Prime Video

Dragon riders, gather round — we’ve got updates! If you fell headfirst into the Empyrean world thanks to BookTok, your book club or that one friend who shoved Fourth Wing into your hands and said “trust me,” you already know the stakes are sky-high for the upcoming Prime Video adaptation. We’ve all spent months (years!) imagining Violet’s first ride, the Battle Brief banter and that parapet scene. Now Rebecca Yarros’ global bestseller is officially being brought to life by Amazon MGM Studios and Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society — and Yarros herself is executive producing.

Here’s everything fans need to know so far, from the woman behind the books to the actor more than 2,000 Woman’s World readers crowned as their dream Xaden Riorson.

Rebecca Yarros is in the room — and she loves the script

The biggest comfort for fans worried about a beloved book becoming a TV show? Yarros isn’t watching from the sidelines. She’s an executive producer, she’s read multiple versions of the script and she’s been openly emotional about the experience.

“We’ve been sitting on this news since last DECEMBER and I finally get to tell you,” Yarros wrote on Instagram when the project was first announced in October 2023. “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!”

At a January event for Onyx Storm, Yarros admitted she was nervous to crack open those early scripts — and we get it. Handing your “book baby” to a stranger? Terrifying.

“I’ve read two versions of the script now,” she told fans in a clip posted on TikTok. “And I was scared, I was super scared to read it, because I think when you hand somebody your baby and you say, ‘Tell me what you think is important in here,’ you’re kind of like, ‘It’s all important,’ and I kicked my feet the entire time. I love it.”

Speaking to Variety, she also called the work “phenomenal.” “Really, just no notes.” Reader, that is the green flag we needed.

There has been a showrunner shift behind the scenes — Moira Walley-Beckett (originally tapped in July 2024) departed, and Wednesday Season 2 EP Meredith Averill stepped in as showrunner, writer and executive producer. Averill also co-created Netflix’s Locke & Key and CW’s Star-Crossed, so she comes with book-to-screen receipts. As of publication, it remains unclear whether new scripts are happening because of the swap.

The other reassuring bit: Yarros has already shared the long game with the team. She told Variety she walked them through “the five-book arc” of the entire Empyrean series. “They have the five-book arc and the general big points of what happens in between each book, but they don’t have the specifics between Book 4 and Book 5, because I’m getting ready to go to my crazy plotting board and plot out every single event that happens in each book.”

Yarros on inclusive casting

Casting is the conversation in the fandom right now, and Yarros is asking us to breathe. “We are not at that point yet,” she said, noting the series doesn’t even have a casting director attached.

But she’s been clear about what matters to her — especially for our brooding MMC (male main character). “I’ve had really great conversations about that…and how important it is to me that we not remove marginalized people from the cast.”

Michael B. Jordan, who told Deadline “It’s coming. It’s early stages, but I feel how much people care about this one. It’s not lost on us,” is on the same page. “No obvious choices,” he promised. “So just know, it’s nothing cheesy coming out. I think it’s going to be something that feels honest.” When a BBC interviewer asked whether Jordan himself might appear on screen, he glanced around and said, “I don’t know.” We’ll take that as a maybe!

The fancasting poll: Who Woman’s World readers want as Xaden

While we wait for official news, more than 2,000 Woman’s World readers cast their votes for the fandom’s favorite “shadow daddy.” Here’s the ranked rundown:

• Fifth place: Charles Melton, 35. The Riverdale and May December star earned the “book-accurate” badge. As one fan put it: “If we’re talking most book-accurate Xaden Riorson—not just ‘hot,’ not just BookTok vibes—but how he’s actually written on the page, Charles Melton is my pick.”
• Fourth place: Michael Yerger, 27. The model and former Survivor contestant has been buzzing in Reddit threads. “This man was so breathtakingly gorgeous on Survivor 35,” one reader wrote. “I would just love to see him become a huge star and get a role as a leading man in a romantasy adaptation like Fourth Wing (hello, Xaden).”
• Third place: Avan Jogia. Yes — Beck from Victorious. “Avan Jogia (you might recognize him as Beck from Victorious) is exactly who I picture as Xaden Riorson!” one reader said. The brooding intensity? Chef’s kiss.
• Second place: Josh Heuston, 28. The Heartbreak High and Dune Prophecy star has been the viral TikTok favorite for months. He’s read all the books (“I think it’s a great world, the books are great, I’ve read them all now,” he told Marie Claire), has a dragon emoji in his Instagram bio and posted a boxing clip captioned “violence” — Xaden’s nickname for Violet. Coincidence? We think not.
• First place: Emilio Sakraya, 29. Drumroll! The German actor (Netflix’s Warrior Nun, Tribes of Europa, Rhinegold) took the crown. A former karate champion and a singer? Fans love him for that “menacing” energy. “Emilio Sakraya is the perfect Xaden. I said what I said,” one reader wrote.

As for our FMC (female main character), all eyes are on Mackenzie Foy, 25. TikTok detectives noticed the Twilight alum follows both Yarros and Jordan on Instagram and has posted Onyx Storm to her stories — plus videos of her doing kicks (Basgiath training vibes?).

When can we actually watch?

Here’s the not-so-fun part: official casting announcements and a premiere date have not been released, and the show likely won’t air for at least another year — possibly two. Vernon Sanders, head of TV at Amazon and MGM Studios, told Us Weekly via Deadline: “We don’t have news to report yet, so I won’t be breaking anything here, but we’re hard at work. We love our relationship with Rebecca Yarros, who has been incredible, and we’re going to get this one right. So that would be my promise to the fans.”

The silver lining? On Feb. 9, 2026, Yarros confirmed on Instagram that she’s back in the Empyrean world writing book four. “Feels like a great day to start a stack of index cards,” she captioned a photo of her infamous plotting tools. “And now that my latest contemporary novel is off to my editor, I’m back writing in the Empyrean world for the foreseeable future. Let’s ride.”

Thank the gods.