Mike White’s sun-soaked satire The White Lotus is gearing up for its return—in a new location, at a new hotel and with a fresh cast, of course. Here’s absolutely everything we know so far about The White Lotus’s upcoming fourth season.
This, perhaps more than anything else, was the biggest question. After Maui, Sicily, and Koh Samui, would the fourth season take us to yet another ridiculously luxurious Four Seasons resort? And would we be transported to a new continent once again?
On September 4, 2025, Deadline reported that the production had settled on France as next season’s location, which has three lavish Four Seasons properties: the Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat on the French Riviera; the gilded, Eiffel Tower-overlooking Four Seasons Hotel George V in Paris; and the cozy, snow-covered Four Seasons Hotel Megève.
However, the first property to be confirmed as a location, via Variety, is a different hotel entirely: the Château de La Messardière in Saint-Tropez, a 19th-century palace-turned-luxury hotel set within 32 acres of parasol pines, cypress trees, and jasmine, and offering five restaurants, a spa, and beach access by Rolls-Royce transfer.
As in previous seasons, other locations and properties will be featured, too, with some scenes set to be filmed at a Paris hotel—though the new installment will mainly unfold along the French Riviera.
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On January 29, Deadline reported that Helena Bonham Carter would be taking a starring role. There was hope that she would fill the Jennifer Coolidge-slash-Parker Posey-shaped hole in our hearts. On April 24, it was announced that Carter would no longer be part of the cast. The news arrives just a week into production on the fourth season. Recasting is pretty rare, but it’s being reported by Deadline that, as Bonham Carter shot her first scenes, White made the decision to rework and recast her role.
Still confirmed to check in? Heather Graham, Steve Coogan, Vincent Cassel, Rosie Perez, Kumail Nanjiani, Chris Messina, Laura Smet, New Girl’s Max Greenfield, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story’s Ari Graynor, Marty Supreme’s Sandra Bernhard, The Madison’s Ben Schnetzer, The Last Kingdom’s Tobias Santelmann, Vikings: Valhalla’s Frida Gustavsson, Vikings’s Alexander Ludwig, The Goldbergs’s AJ Michalka, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Chloe Bennet, Yes Man’s Jarrad Paul, and newcomers Caleb Jonte Edwards, Charlie Hall, Corentin Fila, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Marissa Long, and Dylan Ennis.
Aside from them, there are also a few major players who could return. These include two key survivors (spoiler alert): Jon Gries’s Greg, who we last saw sipping a drink in his mansion following the bloodshed of the season three finale, and Natasha Rothwell’s newly rich Belinda who may or may not now be opening her own spa (and her hot son, Zion, as played by Nicholas Duvernay, too). I, for one would love to see where they wind up.
As always, the season will follow a group of hotel guests and employees over the course of a week, who become wrapped up in a mysterious murder, but per Variety, “sources say that the Cannes Film Festival could also be part of the storyline.” Watch this space.
White, naturally, but another beloved behind-the-scenes fixture crucially won’t be: Cristobal Tapia de Veer, the show’s revered, three-time Emmy-winning composer, who created that iconic “ooh-loo-loo-loo” melody in the opening credits which went onto become a remixed club hit. On April 2, 2025, he told The New York Times that his working relationship with White had been a “struggle” from the very beginning, and that during the making of season three they had their “last fight forever” and decided to part ways.
White responded on Howard Stern, saying of his collaborator: “I don’t think I ever had a fight with him—except for maybe some emails. It was basically me giving him notes. I don’t think he liked to go through the process of getting notes from me, or wanting revisions, because he didn’t respect me. I knew he wasn’t a team player and that he wanted to do it his way. I was thrown that he would go to The New York Times to shit on me and the show three days before the finale. It was kind of a bitch move. By the time the third season came around, he’d won Emmys and he had his song go viral, he didn’t want to go through the process with me, he didn’t want to go to sessions. He would always look at me with this contemptuous smirk on his face like he thought I was a chimp or something… he’s definitely making a big deal out of a creative difference.”
Regardless, this loss will certainly be a big blow to the series, which is remembered for that hair-raising theme tune as much as it is the plot twists and all-star casts. And it’s anyone’s guess what the new White Lotus opening music might sound like.
White is still in the midst of writing the new season, and filming is due to take place between late April and the end of October 2026. (The Cannes Film Festival takes place in May.) With this timeline in mind, and given that there was a more-than-two-year gap between season two and three, it seems likely that the next instalment will arrive in 2027 at the earliest.
Probably. In a Deadline interview, HBO’s Francesca Orsi, the executive who oversees the network’s drama slate, said of White: “I imagine he is going to go beyond four. He hasn’t confirmed it, but I think he has more to say than just one more season.”
Quite possibly. White has told The Hollywood Reporter that he’d “love” to do one, and Orsi has added: “I don’t think that’ll be season four, but that’s still on the horizon. It’s still in discussion but it’s too early.” Patrick Schwarzenegger, who played douchey big brother Saxon in the latest season, also revealed that White had floated the idea of bringing “all the douchiest guys together” from past seasons for a new instalment. (Just thinking of Saxon, Jake Lacy’s entitled Shane and Theo James’s tech bro Cameron in the same room sends shivers down my spine.)
An all-star season “would be cool”, continued White, though tricky from a scheduling standpoint “because all of these people end up becoming huge, huge stars. A lot of these kids that are easy to get are suddenly not so easy to get… but hopefully they’d come back.” For White, they surely would.
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