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EXCLUSIVE: In a competitory situation, pinch aggregate studios and producers pursuing, Apple TV has stepped up to preemptively get nan authorities to Peculiar Stars, nan upcoming romance caller from Rebecca Yarros, nan bestselling writer down nan Fourth Wing imagination romance Empyrean book series.
Apple Studios will create Peculiar Stars arsenic a TV series, pinch Yarros serving arsenic executive shaper done her banner, Full Measures Productions. A hunt is underway for a writer to accommodate nan novel.
With Peculiar Stars — disposable for pre-order and set to publish November 17, 2026 — Apple TV is staking a declare successful nan romance bid space, announcing its ambitions successful nan genre wherever nan streamer has had constricted beingness truthful acold that includes costume play The Buccaneers and, to immoderate extent, play play Pachinko and constricted bid Lessons In Chemistry.
In Peculiar Stars, aft a cyclone strands a young female connected a deserted land pinch a personnel of her fiancé’s family, endurance upends everything she thought she knew astir love. But erstwhile they’re yet rescued, and re-enter their world of privilege, anticipation and secrets, homecoming proves acold much vulnerable than nan land they near behind.
The slow-burn romance, which spans 543 days connected an island, marks nan latest successful Yarros’ romance lineup extracurricular of nan romantasy Empyrean bid which has sold complete 30 cardinal copies. Onyx Storm, nan 3rd book successful nan planned five-book saga, which came retired January 21, 2025, has surgery records arsenic nan fastest trading book successful nan past 20 years.
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A Fourth Wing TV adjustment has been ordered to bid astatine Amazon MGM Studios pinch Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society and Kilter Films producing, and Meredith Averill showrunning. Deadline broke nan news that Yarros’ 2021 romance novel, The Things We Leave Unfinished, has been group up astatine Lionsgate pinch Yarros executive producing, Arash Amel adapting and Thea Sharrock attached to direct.
The author’s romance caller In nan Unlikely Event, sold to Netflix preemptively pinch Dylan Clark Productions producing. Her 2024 romance caller Variation is group up astatine Amazon arsenic a characteristic pinch Higher Ground and Misty Copeland producing. In 2025, her caller The Last Letter, sold to Amazon pinch Imagine producing, Anna Klassen adapting, and Yarros EP-ing.
Yarros, a #1 New York Times bestselling writer of complete 20 novels, is repped by The Fury Agency, Weintraub Tobin, and Untitled Entertainment.
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