Casting & Writing Season 2 of The White Lotus (Ft. Robbie Fox)

Wildcard:

Machine Gun Kelly (The Dirt)

Elevator Pitch:

Another “dream vacation” at a White Lotus resort in Cancún that quickly tailspins into complete and utter chaos. Jesse Plemons takes on the ‘Hotel Manager’ role, leading our cast through their stay (which will take place in a post-COVID world) and Jean Smart/Frances McDormand run the spa and business on the property respectively.

In the pilot, we once again open with a mystery - Nicolas Braun is sitting at the airport, traumatized, wearing a White Lotus t-shirt given to him hours prior, and a couple walks by. The man stops and asks, “Um…were you there for the accident? Did you see it?” before being pulled away by his wife, who yells at him and calls him insensitive. Under his breath, Nicolas Braun mutters, “I caused it.” and we’re off!

P.S. My wildcard is Machine Gun Kelly (playing a fictionalized version of himself) so we can build up to a big concert on the resort which is ultimately a red herring for the accident. Maybe he hooks up with Dove Cameron and Jeffrey Dean Morgan freaks and punches MGK in the chest 65 times. Maybe the concert gets cancelled due to COVID protocols and the guests cause hell for the staff because of it. Many possibilities there.

Kenjac's Casting

Family

Brad Pitt(Fight Club), Florence Pugh(Midsommar), Ki Hong Lee(The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)

Honeymooners:

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Kumail Nanjiani(Silicon Valley), Nicholas Braun(Succession), Chelsea Peretti(Brooklyn 99)

Solo:

Paul Walter Hauser (I, Tonya)

Staff:

Jack McBrayer(30 Rock), Manny Jacinto(The Good Place), Yvette Nicole Brown(Drake and Josh)

Wildcard:

Bryan Cranston(Breaking Bad)

Elevator Pitch:

This season is at the White Lotus resort in Phuket, Thailand. 

The family is made up of three people. Brad Pitt is a successful, good looking older man. Should be pretty difficult for him to pull off. He has an adopted child that is now in his mid 20s played by Ki Hong Lee. He is also recently married to the MUCH younger Florence Pugh. Lee and Pugh don't get along, as he is actually older than she is and views her as a gold digger. This is kind of a parody of both Pitt's adoptions and Pugh dating a much older man, so idk if they would be down. BUT, there could be some really good humor here.

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The honeymooning couple is actually a throuple starring Kumail Nanjiani, Nicholaus Braun and Chelsea Peretti. They are a recently married polygamist couple that has a very uncomfortable power balance, as Kumail is fucking jacked as hell, strong, domineering while Braun is awkward and beta. Imagine this sex scene with Kumail just throwing Peretti around the bedroom while Braun just tries to get a word in. Nanjiani domineers their social life too, ordering for all three of them at dinner, making sure Braun waits 30 minutes after eating before swimming, and vetoing every plan Braun has. Braun was with Peretti before Kumail, and only agreed to the relationship because Peretti is out of his league and she said she would leave him if he didn't agree. This is inspiration is a little on the nose because Braun recently played this same cuck character in 'Zola', but he was just so damn good in it that I'd love to see him run it back. 

Paul Walter Hauser a British solo traveler. He is in Phuket because he had a nonrefundable trip there that he had booked with his girlfriend, who has since broken up with him. His buddies insist that he have sex with a prostitute while he is there to help move on. Because of the language barrier, he makes a mistake and the prostitute that shows up is actually a cisgender male. Since Hauser already paid for the night, he decides to just hang out with him instead. They become really good bros by the end of the trip, bonding over their shared love of boxing and footy. 

Our staff is made up of Jack McBrayer, Yvette Nicole Brown, and Manny Jacinto. Brown is the manager of the resort, who corporate had recently sent in to replace the previous manager who retired. McBrayer is playing a character similar to his 30 Rock character, Kenneth. He is a suck up employee who is an ex-pat with a very ambiguous past. It's heavily implied throughout the season that he has committed a string of crimes in the US and that is why is is hiding out in Thailand. Manny Jacinto is a lazy employee that seems to constantly fail upwards, getting praise and promotion from Brown for work that McBrayer actually did. 

Bryan Cranston is John, part owner of the resort chain who we saw mentioned in the show. He is on vacation there, and he is very invested in this particular resort because he used to personally oversee it. He is a micromanager of our actual manager, Brown, and constantly on her case throughout his trip. 

The big THING of this season is that after a few episodes, there is a big boat trip to one of the outlying islands near the resort. The engine breaks down/the boat sinks, stranding the whole group there. Things begin to get very lord of the flies-ish after a few days along there, while they start to go hungry and the inept resort staff try to start search and rescue. A lot of buried resentment guts pushed up to the surface with social barriers getting lowered. At the end of the day, someone gets their leg eaten. Idk who, but someone. And in the end, it is going to turn out that they were actually very close to civilization, and there was a boat there the whole time.