EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios‘ adaptation of Rebecca Yarros’ bestselling novel Fourth Wing is getting a big-name new showrunner. Agatha All Alongside and WandaVision creator Jac Schaeffer has signed a cope with the studio and can be in talks to board the high-profile romantic fantasy collection undertaking as author, govt producer and showrunner, sources inform Deadline.
She would succeed Moira Walley-Beckett who lately left after being tapped to pen the variation final July. There additionally has been an addition to the Fourth Wing producing workforce as Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Pleasure’s Amazon MGM Studios-based Kilter Movies (Prime Video’s Fallout, The Peripheral) has joined Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society, which had been on board since Amazon MGM Studios secured the rights to The Empyrean e-book collection in 2023.
A rep for Amazon MGM Studios declined remark.
Deliberate as a five-book collection, with Fourth Wing (2023), Iron Flame (2023) and Onyx Storm (2025) as the primary three titles, The Empyrean follows twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail as she leaves the lifetime of a Scribe behind at her mom’s demand that she turn out to be a dragon rider. On the order of her mom, who’s a Basic within the army of Navarre, Violet enters the brutal ranks of Basgiath Battle Faculty, which trains up-and-coming riders by means of the Graduate or Die technique.
Fourth Wing has spent 88 weeks on the New York Instances bestseller listing, 18 of them at #1.
Schaeffer was creator, author and govt producer on Marvel’s WandaVision and spinoff Agatha All Alongside. WandaVision was Emmy-nominated for Excellent Restricted or Anthology Collection and in addition earned Schaeffer writing Emmy and WGA Award nominations. Agatha All Alongside is in 2025 Emmy rivalry.
Most lately, Schaeffer directed and govt produced the pilot for Disney+’s Holes reboot. She is repped by CAA, Curate and legal professional Erik Hyman.
