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.
Where will The White Lotus Season 4 be set?
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.
Who will be in the cast of The White Lotus Season 4?
On January 29, Deadline confirmed that none other than Helena Bonham Carter would be taking a starring role. She will certainly fill the Jennifer Coolidge-slash-Parker Posey-shaped hole in our hearts. Joining her will be Steve Coogan, Chris Messina, Vikings’s Alexander Ludwig, The Goldbergs’s AJ Michalka, and newcomers Caleb Jonte Edwards and Marissa Long.
Aside from them, it seems a safe bet that White will draw in a starry, largely new ensemble, as he has done every other time (a large number of French actors have reportedly auditioned)—but 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 3 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.
What will be the plot of The White Lotus Season 4?
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.
Who will be behind the scenes on The White Lotus Season 4?
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 that 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 3 they had their “last fight forever” and decided to part ways.
White responded on Howard Stern’s show, 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. It’s anyone’s guess what the new White Lotus opening music might sound like.
When will The White Lotus Season 4 be released?
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 installment will arrive in 2027 at the earliest.
Will there be more seasons of The White Lotus after Season 4?
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.”
Will there be an all-star edition of The White Lotus in the future?
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 installment. (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.
