‘Fourth Wing’: Amazon MGM Studios, Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society Developing Fantasy Series Based On Rebecca Yarros Bestseller
30.10.2023 - 21:29
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has snapped up rights to Rebecca Yarros‘ fantasy book series The Empyrean, and is moving to develop its first title, Fourth Wing, for TV alongside Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society.
Sources tell Deadline that the acquisition took place pre-WGA strike, following a heated auction. Outlier will exec produce the Fourth Wing series under its overall series deal with Amazon, inked in 2021. Also set as EPs are Yarros and Liz Pelletier for Entangled Publishing. Should the adaptation prove a success, we hear, there’s the potential for each book in Yarros’ series to be developed into its own separate TV project. The second novel, Iron Flame, is out November 7th.
The launch title for Entangled Publishing’s Red Tower imprint, Fourth Wing has proven explosively popular since its May 2nd release, selling millions of copies worldwide in over 40 languages. The book introduces readers to the brutal world of Basgiath War College, where there is only one rule: Graduate or Die. Our 20-year-old protagonist, Violet Sorrengail, expected to live a quiet life among books and history. But she’s put on an entirely different path when her tough-as-talons general of a mother orders her 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.
Named a Barnes & Noble and Indigo Best Book of 2023, Fourth Wing has spent 25 weeks on the New York Times’ Bestseller list, 13 of those being at #1. The novel has also ranked high on Amazon’s bestsellers chart for 25 weeks and generated over a billion views on TikTok across all related hashtags. Ahead of its November release, second novel Iron Flame has seen over
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