Where will he film? Some clues

The white lotus Completed season three on a macabre note on Sunday, but we hope to get back soon for a new season – no one more than HBO leaders. But first, the creator and showrunner Mike White could probably use his own vacation. It is not known if he would choose a stay (surely) of four seasons or to stay far from the luxury hotel chain which he called “at home” and “set” in recent years.

Although scouting for a location of season four has not even started, this does not prevent us from doing some of our own research, reports – and yes, our own riddles – on the place where five -star murder will be staged. We have not obtained a lot of help from those involved in the show or in the location partnership, but there are crumbs of bread that helped to shed light on our predictions, like:

“Mike just wouldn’t want to be in the cold,” The white lotus Producer David Bernad said The Hollywood Reporter Barely a few weeks ago for coverage. “He hates that.” At the time, White himself said that something like Paris would feel “like a cop”.

Ok, so no colds and no Paris. There are more than 130 stations and hotels of four seasons, and we have just eliminated a handful.

“We are giving ourselves to HBO for any detail or comment in the coming season and filming places,” said a spokesperson for the Four Seasons THR. HBO representatives did not respond to a request for comments on this story. (We warned you that there would not be a ton of official participation.)

Just because White does not want to group for season four, it does not automatically mean that it sticks to the formula by the sea. On the official White lotus Podcast after the final of Sunday’s season, White said he “wanted to get out of the waves of vernacular rocks.”

The subsidies to welcome the fourth season will probably play a major role in the decision. Production has received tax credits for each of the previous payments that fired in Hawaii, Italy and Thailand. In addition to a tax incentive of at least 30% for shooting in Italy, Sicily offers a separate subsidy of up to 20% of the costs to be pulled on the island.

White lotus Producer Dave Bernad said on The Podcast Bill Simmons That production initially planned to film in the south of France, but opted for Italy after HBO asked to consider the four seasons in Taormina, Sicily, due to generous incentives to turn there.

And the choice to shoot in Thailand was made after its approved in 2023, changes in its program which allowed the productions to recover 30%, which would be equivalent to around $ 4.4 million for the second season of the series. These regions offer exotic locations rarely seen in movies and television programs, as well as favorable labor and exchange rate costs.

If producers are looking for a change of landscape, some parts of Norway outside winter could work if they are ready to abandon their partnership with the Four Seasons, which has no hotel in the region, although the luxury vacation company is launching a yacht this year that could pass. The production asked and obtained about $ 7 million to shoot the third season, which was called “Secret Garden” in the country, but was finally adopted in favor of Thailand, the Norwegian newspaper reported BERGENS TIDEDE Last year. It is easy to imagine a Force majeure-Esin in which central death revolves around a Hollywood Bigwig abandoning his wife as an avalanche approaches.

Another possibility: Japan, where White was looking for the third season before Thailand attracted production with generous grants. The country in 2023 unveiled an incentive program offering a reimbursement of up to 50% of qualification expenses in the country, with a ceiling of $ 6.4 million. It’s already drawn Snake eyes: Gi Joe Origins And Tokyo vice. In particular, Japan has opened areas that few productions have ever obtained the authorization of the police to draw, in particular the Esplanade d’Akasaka, a nightlife band known for hundreds of bars and hostess clubs wrapped in narrow mid -mid buildings that are near many most important cultural and political sites in Tokyo. Tokyo vice We offered unprecedented access to the belly in the neon of his capital for the series. This can be a white sale argument.

“Mike White is one of my very close friends,” said Johnny Knoxville Vulture. “He and I were in Tokyo together. I think that’s where the next one … Oh, I don’t give anything. I could call it again as soon as it’s over. ”

Of course, it is literally a donkey.

Last year, the travel advisor Nick Cosinteno de Lux Luxe Travel Co. made the exclusive list of the 10 best of the Four Seasons partner program, a program only an invitation which allows the best agencies of the five -star luxury space to book Four Seasons Properties. Advisers are classified by income and nights reserved for the four seasons. If season four shoots in Japan, Cosinteno would guess that it is in Four Seasons Kyoto or Osaka.

A big fan of the show, Cosinteno predicted that season four will be filmed “somewhere closer to the United States” that he is betting personally on Mexico, which is just through a Gulf of Hell you want to call it. Cosinteno’s favorite is Tamarindo, which offers isolation and amenities of a new station. It also offers “direct access to the beach, private infinity pools and spectacular views of the ocean”, according to the website.

“If you look at it, the aesthetics of design is beautiful and very recognizable,” said Cosinteno THR. “I think it could certainly play in some of the themes that we have seen so far in the show.”

There is only one problem: the oceans tend to have waves crash. COSINTENO does not see the white pivot at this stage of a hotel in the city.

By sticking nevertheless with his assumption of Mexico, a second option is the closed luxury world of Punta Mita. We are still at the water’s edge here, just like the next supposition of Cosinteno: Four Seasons Anguilla.

Four Seasons Resort Anguilla would make “very easy” the fact of making the trademark of the program “experience on the arrival of boats”, said Cosinteno, adding that “the way the station is presented would also be conducive to the show”.

Do you know what’s close to the United States? The American Cosinteno does not see it happening, but as White said THR Barely a few weeks ago, he has not “returned home for three years”. Los Angeles came out (“What, do you want to lead to Burbank on the 405? Fuck off,” said White about production. “It’s a life experience.”)

However, White has expressed the choice of a location that would benefit from the organization of the fourth season. His state of California – in particular, where he lives and cut his teeth as a writer – corresponds to the bill. In the midst of a global production crisis and the theft of titles far from the region and towards regions which give more subsidies to the entertainment industry, the region is experiencing a historic film crisis which left a piece of workers behind the scenes of Hollywood without stable job.

“Where we choose to go next, could have an extreme impact THR.

During a Sunday rally for the “Stay in La” initiative, which requires emergency measures to restore local shooting, Sag-Aftra’s secretary-treasurer, Joely Fisher, called White lotus Producers to shoot the fourth season at the

When he pressure for a few American options, Cosinteno suggested Palm Beach or the Surf Club (Surfside, Florida) as having the right “vibrations” for the show. If White could overcome all the aversion in cold weather, Cosinteno suggested in Four Seasons Jackson Hole – but he thinks that “would be radically weird and different” for The white lotus To leave the tropics behind.

The “most logical” option (but “too easy of a choice” for the show is the Maldives, said Cosinteno, where each station is its own private island. So many waves that crash.

The other possibilities include Australia, Ghana and South Africa, which all offer grants to productions. “My dream would be to hit all the continents, so yes, it’s like his own continent, fundamentally,” White told Sydney Festival. “In a way, we have to come to Australia if we continue.”

Head here for all THRThe coverage of season three of the season, including our oral history not censored with white and distribution, the breakdown of the final and final interviews with Jon Gries, Scott Glenn And love Lou Wood.