Rebecca Yarros’ Screen Slate Expands From ‘Fourth Wing’ to Six Adaptations

Amazon MGM Has Two Very Different Yarros Movies

Amazon MGM is adapting Variation, Yarros’ novel set in the ballet world. Christy Hall, who wrote It Ends With Us, is scripting. Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground and Misty Copeland’s Life in Motion Productions are producing, with Yarros attached as an executive producer, according to Deadline.

The same studio won the rights to The Last Letter after what Deadline described as a high-value bidding war. Former journalist Anna Klassen is writing the screenplay, and Brian Grazer and Jeb Brody of Imagine Entertainment are producing. The material does not include a cast, director or production timetable for either film, so both remain in the writing-and-packaging phase as far as the current reports show.

That pairing gives Amazon MGM two separate lanes into Yarros’ readership: Variation brings professional dance into the adaptation, while The Last Letter arrives with a competitive rights sale but no announced stars.

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Apple TV’s ‘Peculiar Stars’ Starts With a 543-Day Isolation Romance

Apple TV landed the rights to Peculiar Stars, Deadline reported before the novel’s November 17 publication date. The story strands a young woman and a member of her fiancé’s family on a deserted island after a cyclone. Their isolation lasts 543 days, and the romance is built as a slow burn.

There are no announced writer, director or cast details in the report. That makes Peculiar Stars the newest project in the group, with its source novel not yet published at the time of the rights announcement. The hook is unusually clean for a screen pitch: a natural disaster, a remote setting and a relationship that begins under an impossible family complication.

Lionsgate and Netflix Take the More Familiar Romance Routes

Lionsgate’s The Things We Leave Unfinished has moved further along. Deadline reports that Arash Amel is writing the feature, Todd Lieberman is producing through Hidden Pictures, and Thea Sharrock is directing. The Hollywood Reporter says Sharrock, whose credits include Me Before You, has signed on to helm the film.

The story follows 28-year-old Georgia Stanton, who returns home after a public divorce and works with an arrogant bestselling author to finish her late great-grandmother’s WWII love story. Yarros is executive producing through Full Measures Productions. The project has a director and screenplay, but the material does not identify a cast or release date.

Netflix holds the rights to In the Likely Event, with Lindsey Ferrentino writing, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The 2023 novel centers on Nate, a U.S. soldier, and Izzy, a congressional aide, whose romance unfolds against the war in Afghanistan. No director, cast or timing has been reported.

Taken together, these projects show why Yarros’ name is traveling so quickly from bookstore shelves to studio offices. Fourth Wing is the large-scale bet, complete with dragons and a franchise plan. The other five adaptations depend on recognizable romantic engines—ballet, family secrets, wartime love, forced isolation and a military romance. The first concrete date belongs not to a screen release but to Threshing Day: September 29, when Yarros’ next Empyrean stories reach readers before Prime Video has even named its riders.

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