Certainly one of Twilight‘s youngest stars has shared an enthusiastic response to being fancast as Fourth Wing‘s dragon-riding protagonist, Violet Sorrengail. Earlier this 12 months, it was reported that Prime Video had discovered a brand new showrunner—Wednesday and The Haunting of Hill Home EP Meredith Averill—to steer the streamer’s adaptation of Rebecca Yarros’ bestselling Empyrean romantic fantasy sequence.
With pre-production again on monitor, followers may as soon as once more start imagining who may step into the footwear of Fourth Wing leads Violet Sorrengail and Xaden Riorson, round whom Yarros’ total story revolves. Understandably, followers of Yarros’ work have their very own concepts of who ought to tackle these all-important roles.
One of the crucial pervasive fancasts circulating on the web envisions Twilight and Interstellar star Mackenzie Foy as Violet Sorrengail. Throughout a current interview with Teen Vogue, Foy, who performed Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward’s (Robert Pattinson) age-defying daughter Renesmee in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Daybreak elements 1 and a pair of, revealed that she was flattered by the Fourth Wing fandom’s curiosity in her.
“It’s acquired magic, it’s acquired dragons — it’s like, what’s to not love? I’m obsessive about it. The truth that there are individuals who need me to play Violet, that they might even consider me or need me for that, is actually flattering,” Foy mentioned, whereas pointing at Yarros’ books on her cabinets throughout the interview. “It’s as much as Ms. Yarros, so if she calls, I’m down.”
Getting Violet and Xaden’s casting proper is essential to the success of Prime Video’s Fourth Wing adaptation. Not solely are they the guide’s strongest characters, however in addition they be a part of forces to untangle their navy’s corruption and defeat darkish magic-wielding enemies—all whereas turning into more and more romantically concerned.
In Fourth Wing, Violet is roughly 20 years outdated, so the 24-year-old Foy is an inexpensive contender for the function and will simply develop with the sequence. To this point, Yarros has authored three Empyrean novels (Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, and Onyx Storm), with two extra deliberate.
Because the race to provide the preferred “romantasy” adaptation continues—Hulu’s A Courtroom of Thorns and Roses, based mostly on Sarah J. Maas’ phenomenon, has been shelved, whereas Netflix paid seven figures for the rights to adapt Callie Hart’s Quicksilver—it stays to be seen which actors will helm the following wave of high-stakes, romantic fantasy leisure. Mackenzie Foy, not less than, is prepared and prepared to steer Fourth Wing.