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 make the Fourth Wing series under its overall series deal with Amazon, inked in 2021. Liz Raposo exec produces for Outlier Society, alongside 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...
Sources tell Deadline that the acquisition took place pre-wga strike, following a heated auction. Outlier will make the Fourth Wing series under its overall series deal with Amazon, inked in 2021. Liz Raposo exec produces for Outlier Society, alongside 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...
- 10/30/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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