Fourth Wing TV adaptation gets a major new update, details revealed

Meredith Averill, known for her work on Star-Crossed and Locke & Key, is expected to be the showrunner for the Fourth Wing TV adaptation being developed by Amazon MGM Studios.

The show will be based on Rebecca Yarros’ romance fantasy novel, Fourth Wing, which centers around a woman's journey after she enters a War College and forms a strong bond with a dragon.

Averill is poised to take over the creative reins of this project from Jac Schaeffer (WandaVision, Agatha All Along) and Moira Walley-Beckett (Breaking Bad, Anne with an E), who previously dropped out of the collaboration.

Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society is producing this project with Premediated Productions, in addition to Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan's Kilter Films banner, according to the latest report from Deadline. The outlet also points out that final negotiations are underway for Averill's inclusion as writer and executive producer on the project.

More details about the Fourth Wing TV adaptation

Meredith Averill, who is expected to oversee Amazon's Fourth Wing TV adaptation as the showrunner, has previously worked in the fantasy romance genre. She was the writer, creator, and executive producer of the sci-fi teen drama series Star-Crossed, which released one season on The CW between February and May 2014.

Averill also served as a showrunner on the supernatural horror fantasy drama Locke & Key, which ran for three seasons on Netflix and concluded its story as originally planned by the creators. Other than that, she has also worked on shows such as Mike Flanagan's The Haunting of Hill House, Robert and Michelle King's The Good Wife, and Jennie Snyder Urman's Jane the Virgin.

While the plot details of the Fourth Wing TV show are under wraps, here's the plot description for the book, according to Goodreads:

"Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans; they incinerate them. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their chances of success."

It further reads,

"The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant. She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise. Yet with every day that passes, the war outside grows deadlier; the kingdom's protective wards are failing; and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret."

Although the Fourth Wing adaptation is reportedly in work at Amazon MGM, no official reports about its cast and plot details have been revealed so far. Based on the plot description, it may be a treat for fantasy genre fans.

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