The White Lotus season 3: key info
– Filming has formally wrapped
– Official launch date unveiled as February 16, 2025
– First footage teased in a ‘new on Max in 2025’ trailer
– Forged member from season 1 is slated to return
– All-new solid members confirmed and character identities revealed
– Creator Mike White protecting plot underneath wraps
– Max CEO Casey Bloys has hinted there will be a fourth season
The White Lotus season 3 will welcome an entire host of latest visitors in an entire new vacation spot, Thailand. Regardless of the posh lodge model being affected by – spoiler alert – a waves of murders, it seems socialites are nonetheless prepared to go to the opulent resorts. Following the success of season 1 and a couple of of the award-winning Max anthology collection’, there’s been fairly the hiatus contemplating The White Lotus season 2 debuted again in 2022. However, there’s lastly a launch date. The White Lotus season 3 will arrive on February 16, 2025.
That is not the tip of the thrilling information now we have to share although, as there’s season 3’s solid to debate, the seemingly plot, and the hit collection’ future. If we had a solar lounger to give you, we might say sit again, loosen up, and luxuriate in a dive into the luxurious world of The White Lotus. Although wherever you might be on this planet, get suitably cozy and skim on to seek out out extra. Full spoilers comply with for The White Lotus seasons 1 and a couple of.
The White Lotus season 3 launch date
The White Lotus welcomes you to Thailand with a primary take a look at your upcoming keep.The HBO Authentic Sequence #TheWhiteLotus returns February 16 on Max. pic.twitter.com/niVAm6LUhkDecember 17, 2024
The White Lotus season 3 formally has a launch date. Due to The White Lotus season 3 trailer, it has been revealed that the Max present will return in February 2025. And we will get extra particular, it’s going to be out there to stream from February 16. It is welcome information contemplating the assorted delays this season has confronted, however we had our hopes pinned on 2025, and we won’t consider how quickly it’s.
In August, Walton Goggins – who performs visitor Rick Hatchett within the new season – took to Instagram to substantiate that filming had formally wrapped. From this information, we predicted a January or February launch date, so we’re fairly happy with ourselves.
Even higher information, Max subscribers will get a “longer, greater, crazier” season 3 of The White Lotus, with showrunner Mike White telling Leisure Weekly (EW) it’s going to be a “supersized” instalment. This information has since been confirmed in an official Warner Bros. Discovery press launch, which revealed that The White Lotus season 3 might be eight episodes. Two greater than season 1, and another than season 2. As per earlier seasons, it’s going to debut on HBO and stream on Max.
The White Lotus season 3 trailer
An official teaser trailer was unveiled in December 2024 and it is an actual doozy. For The White Lotus season 3, we already knew just a little from the six-second teaser shared in a X/Twitter put up from Max again in August. However, this new trailer offers us an entire lot extra.
The teaser exhibits the visitors arriving in Thailand and it is lastly revealed why Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) returns from season 1 – she’s on an change program and is visiting the Thai resort to expertise a change of surroundings. There’s additionally a take a look at the brand new solid, together with Aimee Lou Wooden, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Leslie Bibb, and Jason Isaacs. Not forgetting a brand new foul-mouthed lodge visitor, Rick Hatchett, performed by Walton Goggins.
The trailer aptly says: “Everybody runs from ache in the direction of pleasure, however they get there solely to seek out extra ache.” And we’re proven as a lot in a montage revealing scenes of debauchery, accusations, and what seems to be a masked theft at gunpoint. As Parker Posey’s character, Victoria Ratliff, places it: “One thing is off.”
The White Lotus season 3 confirmed solid
Spoilers comply with for The White Lotus season 1.
Right here’s the confirmed solid for The White Lotus season 3, together with a returning star from season 1 and the various new faces who’ll be checking on this time round:
- Natasha Rothwell as Belinda Lindsey
- Leslie Bibb as Kate
- Parker Posey as Victoria Ratliff
- Carrie Coon as Laurie
- Jason Isaacs as Timothy Ratliff
- Patrick Schwarzenegger as Saxon Ratliff
- Michelle Monaghan as Jaclyn
- Sarah Catherine Hook as Piper Ratliff
- Walton Goggins as Rick Hatchett
- Aimee Lou Wooden as Chelsea
- Sam Nivola as Lochlan Ratliff
- Lalisa ‘Lisa’ Manobal as Mook
- Lek Patravadi as Sritala
- Tayme Thapthimthong as Gaitok
- Scott Glenn as TBC
- Dom Hertakul as TBC
- Nicholas Duvernay as TBC
- Francesca Corney as TBC
- Arna Fedaravičius as TBC
- Christian Friedel as TBC
- Morgana O’Reilly as TBC
- Shalini Peiris as TBC
- Julian Kostov as TBC
As confirmed within the season 3 trailer, season 1’s unlucky spa supervisor, Belinda (Natasha Rothwell), is again for extra dealings with the satirical collection’ new elitist characters.
After assembly with Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) in Hawaii and pitching her marketing strategy, it appeared that Tanya would possibly make investments a few of her wealth to assist Belinda’s dream. Clearly, although, she didn’t, therefore Belinda looking for new horizons on the job change program. On the subject of her return in season 3, Natasha Rothwell informed Selection: “Everybody must buckle up, as a result of it’s going to get actual!”
Apart from Belinda’s character, the opposite confirmed solid’s roles are as follows. As per Warner Bros. official character descriptions, we now know that Kate (Leslie Bibb) is: “one in all three long-time associates on a ladies’ journey alongside Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan) and Laurie (Carrie Coon). Rick Hatchett (Walton Goggins) is described as: “a rugged man with a chip on his shoulder” visiting the resort together with his girlfriend Chelsea, (Aimee Lou Wooden). Then, there’s the Ratliff household – Timothy (Jason Isaacs), a rich businessman, Victoria (Parker Posey), his spouse, and their three kids; Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook), Lochlan (Sam Nivola), and Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger), who works for his father.
Alongside Belinda, there’s additionally different lodge employees which were listed in the primary solid. These embody Sritala (Lek Patravadi) described as: “one of many house owners of The White Lotus and the visionary behind its wellness program”, Mook (Lalisa Manobal), a well being mentor for visitors, and Gaitok (Tayme Thapthimthong), a safety guard.
The White Lotus season 3 story hypothesis
Full spoilers comply with for The White Lotus seasons 1 and a couple of.
The official story synopsis from Warner Bros. Discovery for The White Lotus season 3 reveals: “The social satire is about at an unique Thai resort and follows the exploits of assorted visitors and workers over the span of per week.” And so, very similar to the earlier seasons of The White Lotus, creator Mike White is protecting fairly quiet about this season’s plot.
Chatting with The Hollywood Reporter (THR), although, he revealed season 3 might be a “satirical and humorous take a look at demise and Jap faith and spirituality. It feels prefer it may very well be a wealthy tapestry to do one other spherical at White Lotus.”
In one other interview with THR, White spoke about whether or not season 3 would begin the best way the opposite two seasons had – with a useless physique: “I don’t suppose it must at all times be a physique. There are such a lot of ways in which we need to reinvent the present annually. Like, what is that this present, apart from individuals? A recent thriller, individuals perhaps count on that. However I don’t really feel constrained by expectation. It’s enjoyable.”
There are some things we all know for sure about The White Lotus season 3. For starters, it is primarily based at one other luxurious resort property – this time in Thailand – and Belinda arrives as a part of an change program, looking for new journey.
We additionally know just a little in regards to the new characters. As reported by Deadline, White was looking for 13 roles, together with 9 collection regulars who “ranged in ages between 18-80s – with a patriarch, a company govt, an actress, a few moms, a misfit, and a yogi among the many bunch.” We now know there’s the Ratliff household, made up of a husband, spouse, and their three youngsters, three feminine associates having fun with a visit away after not seeing one another for a very long time, Kate, Jaclyn and Laurie. Plus, there is a new couple in The White Lotus as Rick Hatchett and Chelsea arrive on the Thai resort. The place their journeys will take them although, stays underneath wraps.
Contemplating every season has an entire new solid, there’s not a lot level trying to the earlier seasons for clues. Though, in the case of Jennifer Coolidge, she could hope that the husband of her character Tanya – named Greg – returns in some capability so she will get oblique revenge for his murderous plot to steal her fortune. Talking with Selection, Coolidge stated: “My hope for Jon [Gries] is that he isn’t completed with Greg. I hope there’s some comeuppance for evil Greg. I feel he ought to, I do not know, find yourself in a meat-grinding machine.”
Will The White Lotus return after season 3?
With the success of the anthology collection, we’d be actually shocked if The White Lotus ends after three seasons. Fortunately, it seems like HBO boss Casey Bloys is onboard for extra installments.
Talking with Selection about future plans for the present, he stated: “I do know Mike has numerous concepts for the place it might go. We’re fortunate to be in enterprise with him. And now we have actors who now actually, actually need to be on the present as a result of it’s an amazing alternative and it’s nice writing. So, I feel so long as he needs to do it, we’ll go alongside for the experience. He’s actually constructed a really fascinating mannequin to go from totally different components of the world and have a rotating solid.”
That is not fairly a affirmation a few fourth entry, but it surely’s definitely a constructive putlook for Bloys to have. In spite of everything, there are such a lot of totally different places The White Lotus might head for subsequent and, with new multifaceted characters that we might little doubt like to hate, the scope of this collection may very well be huge.
So, what might future seasons seem like? Chatting with THR, White was requested whether or not he’d be open to revisiting Greg’s character sooner or later, to which he stated: “It will be simple to only be a full-on anthology, however I feel it’s extra enjoyable to have little threads by way of the present. If the present goes on for a few seasons, it might be enjoyable to have an all-star season”. An all-star season? Signal us up.
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