News Fourth Wing Amazon’s Potential Fourth Wing Adaptation Might Have an Intruging New Showrunner An Emmy-nominated writer might be headed to Basgiath War College. By Molly Templeton | Published on July 2, 2025 Comment 0 Share New Share If you’ve been waiting for news on Amazon MGM Studios’ Fourth Wing adaptation that was announced in 2023, your time has come. Yesterday, news broke that showrunner Moira Walley-Beckett, who signed on last year, had left the project. A departing showrunner could seem like a nasty bump in the road for the series, but a possible replacement may be waiting in the wings. Deadline reports that WandaVision‘s Jac Schaeffer “has signed a deal with the studio and is also in discussions to board the high-profile romantic fantasy series project as writer, executive producer and showrunner,” according to sources. Variety says, “Schaeffer is among multiple names being considered to take over,” but neither outlet names any of the other contenders. Variety also notes that Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s company Kilter Films has joined Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society as producers on the potential series. Fourth Wing is based on the bestselling work by Rebecca Yarros—the first book in The Empyrean series. Amazon bought rights to the sequel, Iron Flame, as well. The series description at the time of announcement read: Enter the brutal world of Basgiath War College where there is only one rule: Graduate or Die. Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail expected to live a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general―her tough-as-talons mother―has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. If the fire-breathing beasts don’t kill her, one of her fellow riders just might. No casting has been announced, and the show doesn’t have a series order. Yet.[end-mark] The post Amazon’s Potential <i>Fourth Wing</i> Adaptation Might Have an Intruging New Showrunner appeared first on Reactor.