Rebecca Yarros’ ‘Peculiar Stars’ Heads To Apple TV For Adaptation
EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, with multiple studios and producers pursuing, Apple TV has stepped up to preemptively acquire the rights to Peculiar Stars, the upcoming romance novel from Rebecca Yarros, the bestselling author behind the Fourth Wing fantasy romance Empyrean book series.
Apple Studios will develop Peculiar Stars as a TV series, with Yarros serving as executive producer through her banner, Full Measures Productions. A search is underway for a writer to adapt the novel.
With Peculiar Stars — available for pre-order and set to publish November 17, 2026 — Apple TV is staking a claim in the romance series space, announcing its ambitions in the genre where the streamer has had limited presence so far that includes costume drama The Buccaneers and, to some extent, period drama Pachinko and limited series Lessons In Chemistry.
In Peculiar Stars, after a cyclone strands a young woman on a deserted island with a member of her fiancé’s family, survival upends everything she thought she knew about love. But when they’re finally rescued, and re-enter their world of privilege, expectation and secrets, homecoming proves far more dangerous than the island they left behind.
The slow-burn romance, which spans 543 days on an island, marks the latest in Yarros’ romance lineup outside of the romantasy Empyrean series which has sold over 30 million copies. Onyx Storm, the third book in the planned five-book saga, which came out January 21, 2025, has broken records as the fastest selling book in the last 20 years.
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A Fourth Wing TV adaptation has been ordered to series at Amazon MGM Studios with Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society and Kilter Films producing, and Meredith Averill showrunning. Deadline broke the news that Yarros’ 2021 romance novel, The Things We Leave Unfinished, has been set up at Lionsgate with Yarros executive producing, Arash Amel adapting and Thea Sharrock attached to direct.
The author’s romance novel In the Unlikely Event, sold to Netflix preemptively with Dylan Clark Productions producing. Her 2024 romance novel Variation is set up at Amazon as a feature with Higher Ground and Misty Copeland producing. In 2025, her novel The Last Letter, sold to Amazon with Imagine producing, Anna Klassen adapting, and Yarros EP-ing.
Yarros, a #1 New York Times bestselling author of over twenty novels, is repped by The Fury Agency, Weintraub Tobin, and Untitled Entertainment.
