‘Fourth Wing’ TV Series Gets Major Status Update From Michael B. Jordan
Riders, welcome to the Fourth Wing!
We’re getting a bit ahead of ourselves, but a Fourth Wing TV show is indeed coming. Amazon MGM Studios and Outlier Society snapped up the rights to Rebecca Yarros’ mega-hit romantasy novel, and updates have slowly but surely been coming in about the adaptation. Outlier is owned by Michael B. Jordan, who’s acting as a producer on the series. In a January 2026 interview with Deadline, he confirmed that the behind-the-scenes team is hard at work on the adaptation.
“We are making sure that this is going to be an exciting show that delivers on all of the things the fans want and some of the things that they won’t be expecting either,” Jordan said. “But trust me, I know how beloved this franchise IP is, and we’re diligently… We’re in the lab, we’re cooking up. We got it. It’s coming. It’s early stages, but I feel how much people care about this one. It’s not lost on us.”
He’s right about the series being beloved. 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, so they’ve been on the lookout for any and all clues about the show. In February 2026, an actor posted a photo of himself reading the Fourth Wing sequel, leading many to speculate that he may be in the running for a role.
We’re breaking down that rumor and everything else we know about the adaptation so far brlow.
What is the status of the Fourth Wing TV show?
Fourth Wing is currently still in development at Amazon MGM Studios and being produced by Outlier. Amazon MGM announced the adaptation in October 2023 after the conclusion of the writers’ strike. Per Jordan’s recent comments, it seems like the the script may still be in progress.
What is Fourth Wing about?
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!
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. “The second I say who I think this character is, that’s who everyone will accept, and only who they will accept,” Yarros said in a fan Q&A in October 2024. “I kind of hope they find an up-and-coming generation.”
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.
In April 2025, a reporter asked Josh Heuston (our pick for Xaden) about the casting rumors. “You have to ask the scribes, I suppose,” he said at the time. It’s worthy to note that Heuston has already joined another book-to-screen adaptation, Prime Video’s Off Campus!
Swooon brought up the idea of Kyle Allen playing Dain in the adaptation to Allen himself. “I’ll ride a dragon,” he said before adding, “I will be part of that project under one condition, and it is if they have real dragons to ride.”
Most recently, the Fourth Wing fandom has been abuzz about Danny Griffin. The Fate: The Winx Saga star posted a photo of himself reading Iron Flame while hanging upside down in a stunt contraption of some sort. Thousands flocked to the comments, wondering if it was hinting at his participation in the adaptation. A fair portion of them hope he’ll portray Liam.
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Who is behind the Fourth Wing TV show?
MGM and Outlier Society initially 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.
Yarros was in full support of Walley-Beckett adapting her novel. “I kicked my feet the entire time—like, I love it,” Yarros said about the showrunner’s scripts. “Moira has done such an amazing job capturing everyone’s voice and the dialogue that you guys love and just the energy and spirit of the book.” Yarros added, “I could not be any happier. Like, she’s amazing.”
In July 2025, however, Deadline reported that Walley-Beckett had left the series. Two months later, Meredith Averill (known for Locke & Key and Wednesday) took over.
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 was released on January 21, 2025. Yarros is also prepping two additional books to wrap up Violet’s story.
