When volition the 4th play of The White Lotus premiere?

HBO officially renewed The White Lotus for a 4th play successful January, weeks earlier the 3rd play premiered and aft bid creator Mike White pitched ideas for different go-round of moneyed execution and mayhem.

"Mike, obviously—if helium wants to determination guardant and bash the 4 seasons—he volition bash the 4th season," HBO CEO Casey Bloys told reporters successful November.

Production connected play 4 volition apt footwear disconnected successful 2026, according to Variety.

Where will The White Lotus' 4th season take place?

The million-dollar question. White and chap producers haven't yet revealed their play 4 destination, but they've been dropping hints.

"We're going connected immoderate locations scouting successful the adjacent mates of weeks, truthful we'll cognize soon," enforcement vice president of HBO Programming Francesca Orsi told Deadline successful February. "I can’t truly accidental wherever we’re going to onshore but chances are determination successful Europe."

Chances, she emphasized.

There are "some countries connected the representation that we talked about," Orsi added, "but thing to study connected until they really spell locations scouting."

White said successful an interrogation for HBO that ran aft the April 6 play 3 finale that helium was looking to "get a small spot retired of the 'crashing waves against rocks' vernacular" for adjacent season.

"But," helium added, "there's ever country for much murders astatine the White Lotus hotels."

White besides mentioned Australia arsenic a imagination destination portion helium was successful Sydney astatine the Vivid Festival successful June 2023.

“It would beryllium truthful fun," helium said. "Obviously, there’s a immense wealthiness of endowment present and the quality is inarguable, truthful it feels similar it checks each the boxes.”

Really, the possibilities are endless, almost: A assemblage successful the snowfall has yet to beryllium a crippled constituent connected the series, but a fancy skis edifice whitethorn not beryllium successful the cards. Producer David Bernad told The Guardian in February, "Mike doesn't similar the cold."

The White Lotus Theme Song May Sound Different successful Season 4

Cristóbal Tapia de Veer, the Emmy-winning composer down the White Lotus title themes, volition not beryllium backmost for play four, citing originative disagreements with White dating backmost to the show's archetypal season.

"It's benignant of weird close present due to the fact that I announced to the squad a fewer months agone that I was not coming back, that I was leaving," Tapia de Veer told the New York Times successful an interrogation published April 2. "I didn’t archer Mike for assorted reasons; I wanted to archer him conscionable astatine the extremity for the daze and whatever." (White did find retired earlier season's end, helium said.)

As for the instantly catchy taxable euphony helium wrote for play 1 (that besides opened play two), "You spot it afterward, and it’s a success," Tapia de Veer said, "but to get determination is rather the struggle."

And nary 1 told him to retool the opener for play three, helium said, but helium did—much to fans' large consternation.

"When that came out, I had TMZ calling me, adjacent radical from England and from France, due to the fact that they wanted immoderate benignant of connection astir the theme," Tapia de Veer said. "People are furious astir the alteration of the theme, and I thought that was interesting. I texted the shaper and I told him that it would beryllium large to, astatine immoderate point, springiness them the longer mentation with the ooh-loo-loo-loos, due to the fact that radical volition detonate if they recognize that it was going determination anyway. He thought it was a bully idea. But past Mike chopped that—he wasn’t blessed astir that."

The composer added, "I mean, astatine that point, we already had our past combat forever, I think. So helium was conscionable saying nary to anything."

Neither White nor HBO has commented.

Will Gary Return for Season 4 of The White Lotus?

White was pleasantly shocked that Jon Gries, who played Tanya's mysterious suitor Greg successful play 1 and her calculating hubby successful play two, agreed to travel backmost to play nefarious widower Gary successful play three. But Gries said Gary's (a.k.a. Greg's) vessel has sailed, arsenic acold arsenic helium knows.

However, that's what helium thought past time.

"I don’t deliberation [I'm coming back], but I don’t cognize so," helium told The Hollywood Reporter after play 3 ended with Gary's concealed harmless for now. "All I tin accidental is, each clip I leave, I presume it’s over."

And yet contempt the entreaty of having each caller guests astatine each resort—"I tin pain down the location astatine the extremity of each season," White told The New Yorker, "and commencement gathering again”—the amusement has proved that, if you aren't dead...

"There’s nary trying to foretell thing Mike White does," Gries admitted to THR. "I ne'er presumed I’d beryllium successful play two. Same for play three. Everything helium does has an constituent of astonishment to it. Yes, I would emotion to travel back. But does the publication connected Greg look similar it’s complete? I can’t archer you."

Will The White Lotus Find Some Way for Tanya to Come Back?

Short of a White Lotus prequel oregon multiverse situation, there's truly nary conveyance for Jennifer Coolidge's Tanya to instrumentality but successful a flashback oregon imagination sequence. But the anticipation has remained ever since her unfortunate tumble from a yacht successful the play 2 finale that revealed her to beryllium the premiere's enigma assemblage aft being the lone returning quality from play one.

White has admitted to missing Coolidge's presence, but hasn't questioned his determination to termination disconnected the well-intentioned but clueless and obscenely affluent Tanya.

"He benignant of sticks to his guns," Coolidge said of White connected E! News successful January 2023 aft the play 2 finale. "He's an astonishing friend, but I deliberation helium made his decision. He wanted a big, dramatic, Italian, you know, operatic ending for White Lotus 2, and helium wanted to sacrifice Tanya."

Confirming she definitely wouldn't beryllium showing up successful Thailand for play three, she told The New Yorker, "I don't deliberation Tanya's ever coming back, truthful I person to unrecorded with it."