The 'Fourth Wing' TV show has cast its Violet and Xaden. Here's everything we know so far.

At this point, it's difficult not to be acquainted alongside Rebecca Yarros' "Empyrean" sequence concerning dragon passenger Violet Sorrengail.

When "Onyx Storm," the third publish in the romantasy series, was released in January 2025, it became the fastest-selling grownup novel in 20 years.

Yarros is operating on the fourth installment in the series, and she lately released a gathering of abbreviated stories set in the "Empyrean" cosmos called "Threshing Day." However, it volition motionless be a during before publish four is prepared for readers.

In the meantime, though, we're getting nearer to a sequence adaptation of "Fourth Wing," which officially established its guide actors.

'Fourth Wing' is becoming a TV show

In October 2023, Deadline announced that Amazon MGM Studios and Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Society were evolving "Fourth Wing" into a TV series. Yarros is an administrator manufacturer for the show.

Outlier Society produced Jordan's "Creed III" and is evolving a slate of another sequence and films in supplement to "Fourth Wing."

Deadline additionally reported in October 2023 that Amazon MGM Studios had acquired the entitlements to the complete "Empyrean" series. In her January 2025 Variety interview, Yarros stated she had shared the "five-book arc" for the "Empyrean" sequence alongside Amazon.

"They have the five-book arc, which went a small awry in Book 3 fair since the positioning, but they already cognize that," she told Variety. "But they have the five-book arc and the broad big points of what happens in between all book, but they don't have the specifics between Book 4 and Book 5, since I'm getting prepared to go to my insane plotting commission and storyline out all sole event that happens in all book, so that I create certain that I'm inside my two books there."

A new showrunner

In July 2024, Outlier Society announced it had hired Moira Walley-Beckett, who worked on shows akin "Breaking Bad" and "Anne alongside an E," as the showrunner for the series. In a January 2025 discussion alongside Variety, Yarros stated Walley-Beckett was "great" and "phenomenal," but in July 2025, Walley-Beckett exited the project.

Variety reported in September 2025 that Meredith Averill was taking complete as showrunner. Averill was earlier the showrunner of the Netflix sequence "Locke & Key" and a manufacturer on shows akin "The Good Wife" and "The Haunting of Hill House."

Amazon declined to comment on this part whenever contacted by Business Insider, but Yarros shared a screenshot of a Deadline part about the showrunner notice on her Instagram whenever it dropped.

"Welcome to the team, Meredith Averill! Guys, I affection everything this fantastic female has worked on and I'm so enthusiastic to have her joining us," Yarros stated in her caption.

'Fourth Wing' is in the works

In January 2026, Jordan assured fans the "Fourth Wing" display was on its way in an interview alongside Deadline.

"We are making certain that this is going to be an breathtaking display that delivers on all of the things the fans desire and several of the things that they won't be expecting either," Jordan said.

He additionally told the outlet that he's conscious of how much fans of "Fourth Wing" attention concerning the series.

"But rely me, I cognize how cherished this franchise IP is," he said. "It's first stages, but I awareness how much group attention concerning this one. It's not misplaced on us."

And on May 11, 2026, Jordan announced the display had been ordered to sequence for Prime Video at the Amazon Upfront, an annual event anywhere Amazon offers a sneak peek at its coming content.

Yarros and Averill joined Jordan onstage at the event, as did Lisa Joy, an administrator manufacturer on the display who volition straightforward the archetypal episode. Joy has earlier worked on shows akin HBO's "Westworld" and Prime Video's "Fallout."

Yarros posted concerning the event on her Instagram story, sharing a photo of herself, Jordan, Averill, and Joy, writing, "What an entirely untamed night! So grateful for this team!"

Meet Violet and Xaden

The Amazon Upfront seemed to build momentum for the show, as it was announced in October that the Prime Video sequence had mold its Violet Sorrengail and her enemy turned beloved Xaden Riorson. Deadline archetypal reported the casting on October 15, 2026, although the streamer didn't verify that news until October 21.

Esther McGregor volition perform Violet. McGregor, the 24-year-old female of Ewan McGregor, appeared in "Babygirl" and "We Were Liars," another Amazon adaptation.

Meanwhile, 30-year-old Emilio Sakraya has been mold as Xaden. The German performer is known for projects akin "Rheingold" and the famous Netflix sequence "Warrior Nun." Both actors are related newcomers, though, alongside their "Fourth Wing" casting marking a big stage in their careers.

McGregor reshared Amazon's article concerning her casting to her Instagram story, writing, "So beyond excited. Honored. Thrilled."

Sakraya additionally shared the article to his Instagram story, but he captioned it alongside a citation from "Iron Flame," the second publish in Yarros' series, in a fun nod to the text: "My house. My chair. My Woman."

In a declaration shared by Amazon, Yarros said, "I'm so grateful to our producing and casting squad for conducting a thorough, worldwide hunt to discover Violet and Xaden. It volition be incredibly breathtaking to see these gifted actors, Esther and Emilio, bring our cherished characters to existence on screen."

Yarros stated at a London event in August 2024 that she intentionally never shared any hopes for which actors may be mold in the show.

"I volition never say who my ideal fan mold is since the mold is so diverse, and I desire to open that up to additional diversity," she said. "And I awareness akin the second I say who I think this character is, that's who everyone volition accept. That's lone who they volition accept."

"I kinda anticipation they find, like, an up-and-coming generation," she added. "But I would never put my fan mold in your heads."

At the identical event, she clarified that she wouldn't be engaged in the casting process, but that she had shared one hard-line casting petition alongside Amazon and Outlier Society.

"They cognize how staunch I am against whitewashing Xaden," she said. "I think that's the biggest thing."

Xaden is described as having "warm tawny skin" in "Fourth Wing" and "tawny-brown" skin in the two "Iron Flame" and "Onyx Storm." Sakraya was delivered in Germany to a Serbian begetter and a Moroccan mother, according to an discussion alongside German Films Quarterly.

Amazon did not provision any additional particulars on casting or whenever filming for the sequence may begin.

Yarros talked concerning the series' aviator during on a publish tour for 'Onyx Storm'

Although particulars concerning the sequence are limited, Yarros made a few comments concerning the display during promoting "Onyx Storm."

Speaking at an involvement on January 24, 2025, in New York, Yarros told fans she had peruse the aviator for the "Fourth Wing" display — and loved it.

"I peruse the latest type of the aviator final week," she said. "It's really nerve-racking whenever you peruse item akin that since you're really — you're trusting person alternatively alongside your baby, right? And you're trusting person alternatively to say, like, 'Hey, this is crucial in your work, and this isn't,' and you kinda get your defender up."

"But guys, I, like, kicked my feet the entire time," she said. "You're gonna affection it."

Yarros additionally praised Walley-Beckett at the event, calling her a "brilliant writer" and saying she maintained the book's integrity in the pilot. It's unclear how the aviator may have changed since Walley-Beckett's exit from the project.