Rebecca Yarros is only two volumes into her fantasy series but she’s already producing a Prime Video series based on her books. That’s two better than George R.R. Martin and his still-unfinished Song of Ice and Fire books that became the Game of Thrones series.

Amazon announced Monday that Moira Walley-Beckett would serve as showrunner for Fourth Wing, based on Yarros’ Empyrean series of fantasy novels, which is being produced for streaming by Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society imprint. Walley-Beckett wrote for Breaking Bad and was the creator of the show Anne with an E.

The book series so far consists of Fourth Wing, published in May 2023, and Iron Flame, published in November 2023. It follows twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail as she leaves the life of a Scribe to become a dragon rider. Her mother, who is a General in the military of Navarre, commands Violet to enroll at the brutal Basgiath War College, which trains up-and-coming riders through the “Graduate or Die” method.

While there, Violet meets the dangerous, and yes, sexy Xaden Riorson, who helps train her for dragonback rides as well as how to fight in the war threatening their homeland, Navarre.

Yarros posted the news about the series on her Instagram last October, before Iron Flame was officially available. Yarros will executive produce the series along with Jordan, Walley-Beckett, Elizabeth Raposo and Liz Pelletier.

There has been no casting news and Prime Video has yet to announce a filming date, nor a release date.

This isn’t the only show on Amazon Prime that is based on a fantasy book series that features dragons; the beasts also turn up in Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which is based on the classic J.R.R. Tolkein series. The Rings of Power will launch its second season on August 29th of this year.

Amazon Prime is one of the most popular subscription streaming services, tied with Netflix which each commanding 22% of the streaming market according to a 2024 report from Statista. The next highest share belongs to Max/Discovery, which announced Monday that it would be laying off nearly 1000 workers, most from the Discovery branch of the Warner Bros-owned platform.

Apple TV+, which at 9% has a much smaller share of the market, also announced that it will be slashing its budgets on Monday. The service has spent over $20 billion on original programming, including $50 million on each season of The Morning Show, but the platform has a smaller share of top ten hits than any streaming service except Paramount+. Apple plans to be less tolerant of underperforming shows than they have been to date.