According to Screen Rant, Prime Video's adaptation of Rebecca Yarros's fantasy phenomenon Fourth Wing is shaping up to be an enormous production — one with ambitions that could make even House of the Dragon look modest by comparison. For fans of high fantasy television, that's a statement worth paying attention to.
Why Fourth Wing's Casting Is the Biggest Fantasy Conversation of the Year
For the uninitiated, Fourth Wing drops its heroine, Violet Sorrengail, into Basgiath War College — a brutal military academy where students either bond with war dragons or die trying. The story blends the political intrigue of Game of Thrones with a sprawling ensemble of dragon riders, rival factions, and morally complicated love interests. That means Prime Video is going to need to cast a lot of roles, and they need to get the leads exactly right. Violet has to carry the whole thing. Xaden Riorson, her brooding, dangerous counterpart, needs to crackle with tension. The supporting riders — Rhiannon, Liam, Ridoc, Sawyer — have to feel like a real found family worth rooting for. The casting decisions here will define whether this show joins the fantasy pantheon or disappears after one season.
What myCast Fans Are Already Saying
The myCast community hasn't waited for Prime Video to make any announcements — fans have been building out their dream casts for months across multiple stories, and the data tells a genuinely interesting story about where the fandom's head is at.
The most voted-on story is the Fourth Wing fan cast with 36 total votes across 12 roles, and two picks are pulling well ahead of the field. Amybeth McNulty — best known for Anne with an E and her breakout role in Stranger Things Season 4 — leads the Violet Sorrengail vote with 13 votes, the same total as Taylor Zakhar Perez for Xaden Riorson. That Perez pick is a fascinating choice: he's got the smoldering charisma the role demands, and his The Idea of You performance showed he can do brooding romantic lead. In that same story, Florence Pugh is picking up 4 votes for Imogen — though Pugh also appears in a separate Fourth Wing story as a fan pick for Mira Sorrengail, Violet's older sister. Apparently fans just want Florence Pugh in this universe, and honestly, who can argue?