Mike White and HBO have selected the French hotel that would serve as the primary setting for the fictional White Lotus resort in Season 4, sources confirm to Deadline.
After a location search that is as closely watched as the casting process for each installment of White’s murder mystery, Château de La Messardière in Saint-Tropez has been set as the backdrop for the next round of rich people behaving badly, with someone — one someones — ending up dead.
Reps for HBO declined comment.
Following Deadline’s exclusive report in September that The White Lotus was headed to France for Season 4, attention focused on the French Riviera, with reports of White spotted at multiple hotels in the area last summer, including Nice’s historic Hotel Negresco.
As previously reported, HBO had marketing partnership with the Four Seasons hotel chain whose hotels doubled as White Lotus resorts in the first three seasons; there is no such agreement in place for Season 4, widening the location search.
Additionally, the series sometimes uses multiple hotels in one season as was the case in Season 3, which incorporated the Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui as its main setting, along with three other non-Four Seasons hotels. It is unclear whether there would be secondary resort locations for Season 4. (There is a Four Seasons hotel on the French Rivera, the famous Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat.)
The 19th-century The Château de la Messardière is perched on a hilltop with panoramic views of the Bay of Saint-Tropez. While not directly on the beach, the resort has its private beach club that is just a couple of minutes away via shuttle.
Château de La Messardière
Courtesy of Airelles
“For the fourth season, I want to get a little bit out of the crashing waves of rocks vernacular but there’s always more room for more murders at the White Lotus hotels,” White said at the end of Season 3.
It is unclear whether his outlook has changed over the past several months.
The White Lotus’ Season 4 hotel location was first reported by Variety.
