‘Fourth Wing’ Is Finally Headed to the Screen with the Help of a ‘Sinners’ Star

After selling millions of copies and taking BookTok by storm, a Fourth Wing television series is finally taking flight on Prime Video.

On Monday, during Amazon’s presentation at the 2026 Upfronts, Oscar-winning Sinners star Michael B. Jordan took the stage to announce the news. Jordan is set to executive produce the series through his Outlier Society banner. Additionally, he announced that Westworld‘s Lisa Joy will be directing its first episode and executive producing the series, calling her the “right creative partner” to bring the show to life.

Joy, meanwhile, promised that the show will be “building a cinematic world” and hopes to “to deliver the series this fandom deserves.”

The Fourth Wing TV show has been in the works for several years now, after Amazon MGM Studios and Outlier Society bought the rights in May of 2023, just before the first book in the series was officially released. Meredith Averill, who previously worked on Wednesday, stepped in as showrunner last fall, after Breaking Bad alum Moira Walley-Beckett departed the project in June of 2025.

“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,” franchise author Rebecca Yarros said during the Upfronts presentation.

Executive producers on the project also include Averill, Yarros, Elizabeth Raposo of Outlier Society; Jonathan Nolan and Athena Wickham via Kilter Films; Liz Pelletier and Sherryl Clark via Premeditated Productions.

What Is Fourth Wing About?

Fourth Wing is based on Yarros’ hugely popular fantasy series of the same name, which already 2023’s Fourth Wing and Iron Flame and 2025’s Onyx Storm. Two more books are planned for the series, with the plan to hopefully adapt all five novels across multiple seasons of television.

Fourth Wing is set inside the brutal world of Basgiath War College, where there is only one rule: graduate or die. Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was always expected to live a quiet life — but she’s sent on an entirely different path when her mother, a general in the military, orders her to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become dragon riders, the elite of Navarre.

If you’ve even passively been on BookTok in the time since the first book debuted, you’ve probably heard of the franchise. The first book alone sold over two million copies in its first six months, and has been translated into thirty different languages.

“Rebecca’s books have become one of the fastest-selling franchises of the 21st century, with a fandom so passionate, so devoted, they don’t just read these books, they live in them, and it’s because Fourth Wing is everything at once,” Averill said during the presentation. “The emotional stakes are sky high, the battles are epic, power dynamics are thrilling, and underneath it is so much humor and heart and a romance that will consume you.”

In addition to Fourth Wing, Jordan also presented two additional projects during the Upfronts presentation: The Greatest, a limited series chronicling the life of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali; and Delphi, a spinoff of the Creed film series centered around a young Latin American boxer.

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