The White Lotus season 4 confirms first story details as full cast is announced – and there's a cinematic twist

The White Lotus season 4 is officially in production – with the creative team behind the beloved HBO show sharing the very first details about what we can expect this time around.

The Emmy award-winning series, which focuses on a turbulent week at a five-star resort full of chaotic and entitled guests, has started rolling cameras in the French Riviera.

For the first time ever, season 4 will not focus on one hotel in the White Lotus chain, but two: the White Lotus du Cap and the White Lotus Cannes.

The official logline reads: "A new group of White Lotus hotel guests and employees over the span of a week, taking place during the Cannes Film Festival."

Creator Mike White previously shared the season will focus on the concept of celebrity, telling W Magazine he came up with the idea while filming reality series, Survivor 50.

He said: "It’s a bit about fame, about who has the world’s attention, who is the plus-one, and how that can organise a relationship.

"Some people are satisfied with the love of just an intimate partner, and some people need the love of strangers and a bigger kind of attention."

As White has previously confirmed, each season of White Lotus focuses on a specific theme. "The first season we highlighted money and then the second season is sex and I think the third season, it would be maybe a kind of satirical and funny look at death in Eastern religion and spirituality," he told Deadline in 2022.

The forthcoming season will film across multiple locations in Monaco and the South of France, including Cannes and St. Tropez. Filming will also take place in Paris, though the story will remain along the Côte d'Azur.

The Airelles Château de la Messardière will be used as the White Lotus du Cap, while the Hôtel Martinez will be turned into the White Lotus Cannes.

The main cast has also been confirmed as Helena Bonham Carter, Vincent Cassel, Steve Coogan, Caleb Jonte Edwards, Dylan Ennis, Corentin Fila, Ari Graynor, Marissa Long, Alexander Ludwig, Chris Messina, AJ Michalka, Kumail Nanjiani, and Nadia Tereszkiewicz.

Additional cast includes: Chloe Bennet, Sandra Bernhard, Heather Graham, Max Greenfield, Frida Gustavsson, Charlie Hall, Jarrad Paul, Rosie Perez, Ben Schnetzer, and Laura Smet.

The White Lotus seasons 1-3 are available on Sky Atlantic, NOW and HBO Max.

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