The White Lotus season 4 location is confirmed and we couldn’t be extra excited after studying the place the subsequent installment of the anthology collection goes to be.
Within the hit HBO dramedy, the placement is simply as essential because the twisty plot, so figuring out the setting of The White Lotus season 4 is an important a part of determining what the present’s creator, Mike White, has in retailer for us.
The place Will ‘The White Lotus’ Season 4 Be Set?
The White Lotus season 4 will movie within the Airelles Château de la Messardière in Saint-Tropez, regardless of HBO’s advertising and marketing partnership with the 4 Seasons resort chain, per Selection. Constructed within the nineteenth century, the five-star resort has a “mix of Anglo-Moorish, Oriental, Mediterranean, Florentine, and Provençal kinds,” making it an eclectic location for the present, per their web site.
They’ve eating places, a seashore, swimming pools, and surrounding vineyards. The filming is predicted to happen from late April to October 2026.
(For reference, Season 1 was shot on the 4 Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea, Season 2 on the San Domenico Palace in Taormina, Sicily and Season 3 used the 4 Seasons Koh Samui resort in Thailand.)
Mike White Hinted at a ‘Movie Competition’ Setting for Season 4
Whereas the unique potential location was on the Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat, dubbed a Hollywood hotspot resulting from its proximity to Cannes, the Airelles Château de la Messardière is simply as a lot of a star hotspot, particularly because it’s in Saint-Tropez. (Whereas it’s not Cannes, they do have a movie competition known as the Antipodes Worldwide Movie Competition, also called the Competition des Antipodes.)
White hinted on the official The White Lotus podcast that he’d like to research the movie star world in an upcoming season.
He mentioned he’d like to do one thing “like the primary season the place it’s the satirizing stuff about artwork and criticism and films and fame and movie star…like a movie competition kind of factor or one thing like that, or like an artwork world type of scenario. It simply seems like that will be some sort of new theme to get into that’s perhaps rather less heady than what we simply did, however nonetheless have some juice to it.”
White Hates The Chilly
Whereas some followers had been anticipating The White Lotus season 4 to utilize one of many 4 Seasons snowy ski resorts, corresponding to Megève within the French Alps, producer David Bernad insists that we shouldn’t count on to see White directing in thermal gear any time quickly. (Which completely checks out because the filming is predicted to be in spring, summer season, and early fall!)
“I’d guess $100,000 we don’t find yourself within the chilly subsequent,” he advised The Hollywood Reporter in April. “Even when we flirted with the concept, Mike simply wouldn’t wish to be within the chilly. He hates it.”
That mentioned, there may be one clue that may rule the Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat out and that’s it’s seaside setting. Like season 2’s Sicily location, the Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat sits on the Mediterranean sea, a setting White mentioned he’d wish to get away from.
“For the fourth season, I wish to get slightly bit out of the crashing-waves-of-rocks vernacular, however there’s all the time extra room for extra murders on the White Lotus resorts,” he mentioned in a “Behind The Episode” characteristic after the finale of season 3.
HBO additionally declined to substantiate rumors that season 4 will probably be set in France, telling Self-importance Honest, “We didn’t take part in Deadline’s speculative story and gained’t be confirming.”
So, all in all, we’ll simply have to attend and see.
Earlier than you go, click on right here to all of the books featured in season 3 of ‘The White Lotus’.