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‘Fourth Wing’: Jac Schaeffer Eyed As New Showrunner, Inks Deal With Amazon MGM Studios As Moira Walley-Beckett Departs Series
Amazon MGM Studios' adaptation of Rebecca Yarros’ book Fourth Wing has a new showrunner, Jac Schaeffer, replacing Moira Walley-Beckett who has left.
Agatha All Along and WandaVision creator Jac Schaeffer has signed an overall deal with the studio and, as part of that, is in talks to board the high-profile romantic fantasy series project as writer, executive producer and showrunner, sources tell Deadline. Planned as a five-book series, with Fourth Wing(2023), Iron Flame(2023) and Onyx Storm(2025) as the first three titles, The Empyrean follows twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail as she leaves the life of a Scribe behind at her mother’s demand that she become a dragon rider. At the order of her mother, who is a General in the military of Navarre, Violet enters the brutal ranks of Basgiath War College, which trains up-and-coming riders through the Graduate or Die method.
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