In only a few years, filmmaker Mike White has grow to be a family identify due to his work on the favored HBO sequence The White Lotus (which is streaming with a HBO Max subscription). Whereas Season 3 was lately nominated for 2025 Emmy Awards, White has been busy as a part of the forged of Survivor 50. Though a HBO exec lately defined what’s “nice” about his return to actuality TV.
Whereas Mike White returned to Survivor (which is streaming with a Paramount+ subscription), followers have been questioning the place White Lotus Season 4 may movie…. and if the present may face delays because of White’s reunion with Jeff Probst in Fiji. HBO Max boss Casey Bloys spoke to Selection about why this return to actuality TV might be useful for subsequent season, providing:
The wonderful thing about Mike, one of many issues I find out about him, is no matter is happening in Fiji and Survivor, I do know that he’s desirous about The White Lotus. Perhaps he’s even observing his fellow contestants and taking notes and getting concepts. So I’m not nervous about any form of delay. Mike all the time has the present in his head labored out, so I’m excited to speak to him when he’s again about what he’s what he’s pondering.
Actually, he is obtained a degree. Survivor is the final word social experiment, which can little doubt present loads of inspiration for the brand new batch of characters who’re introduced into The White Lotus 4. So whereas White is likely to be busy attempting to outwit, outplay, and outlast, Bloys appears to suppose that he is nonetheless obtained the acclaimed HBO comedy sequence on the mind. Now I am out of the blue much more invested in each of those reveals.
Whereas some of us surprise how a lot Survivor contestants make, I am interested in which characters from the fiftieth season may affect The White Lotus Season 4. Mike White additionally has a behavior of giving his Survivor castmates cameos, so somebody he competed with may even find yourself popping up on the present.
Later in that very same interview, Casey Bloys teased the talks which were taking place behind the scenes about The White Lotus‘ fourth season. He shared:
I’ve a way of the concepts that he’s enjoying with, however the scouting course of is absolutely vital for him. They’re going to be doing that quickly. I don’t know the place it’s going to finish up. I do know it has been reported, Europe basically. However a lot may change. It actually does rely on when he sees a location, what he thinks about it and the way it works with the story he’s attempting to inform. So I simply don’t know till he truly goes and excursions quite a lot of locations, and what excites him and what speaks to him. He’ll undergo that course of and we’ll take his lead.
It is good seeing how a lot religion Bloys and the parents on the community have in Mike White’s artistic course of. They appear all the way down to comply with him wherever he’d wish to movie for Season 4, whether or not it is in Europe or some place else completely. In fact everyone knows the placement the place he is been spending time currently: Fiji. However maybe that may be too apparent f a selection after Survivor.
For these unfamiliar, White debuted on Survivor’s thirty seventh season, David vs Goliath. Regardless of his lengthy historical past in Hollywood he was capable of be handled like everybody else, and was a fan favourite. For Season 50 he’ll be enjoying with all returning gamers, together with some absolute legends from the franchise. And I am desirous to see precisely how the interpersonal dynamics play out.
The White Lotus‘ first three seasons are streaming on HBO Max, and Season 4 is not anticipated as a part of the 2025 TV premiere checklist. Whereas we anticipate Mike White’s Survivor return, you possibly can re-watch his first season on Paramount+.