Amazon's Fourth Wing TV Series Taps Meredith Averill as New Showrunner

Amazon has announced Meredith Averill arsenic the caller showrunner for Fourth Wing, the highly anticipated TV adapation of the fashionable phantasy romance publication by the aforesaid name, which is portion of The Empyrean bid by Rebecca Yarros.

Averill has credits arsenic the showrunner for Locke and Key, enforcement shaper for The Haunting of Hill House, and enforcement shaper for Wednesday, Season 2.

In July 2025, it was announced that erstwhile showrunner for the series, Moira Walley-Beckett, was retired aft being attached since 2024. The TV bid has been successful improvement since October 2023, and is being produced by Amazon MGM Studios and Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society – some of which whom person acquired the rights to each books successful the series.

The Fourth Wing adaptation volition travel Violet Sorrengail arsenic she attends Basgiath War College to go a dragon rider. The assemblage holds deadly competitions and the trainings tin beryllium fatal for students, each portion Violet tries to debar moving into the astir almighty pupil astatine Basgiath who seems to beryllium retired to termination her – Xaden Riorson.

The Emyprean bid has sold implicit 12 cardinal books worldwide, and presently has 3 books published successful the series. The archetypal 1 being Fourth Wing, released successful May 2023, the sequel Iron Flame, released successful November 2023, and astir precocious Onyx Storm, released successful January 2025. Yarros has shared determination volition beryllium 2 much books written for the series, but she has not begun penning publication 4 yet, arsenic she has been focusing connected 1 of her different series' first.

Fourth Wing spent 18 weeks astatine No. 1 connected the New York Times bestseller database and spent 94 weeks successful full connected the list, portion selling implicit 2.7 milion copies successful its archetypal week of release.

Yarros announced successful March 2025 that graphic-novel adaptations are successful the works for The Empyrean series, spanning a full of six books, covering Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, and Onyx Storm. Yarros said she volition beryllium adapating the books herself, on with comic creators.