The girls are reuniting, per Tiffany Haddish, who shared an update on the filming locale for sequel Girls Trip 2 and when production will commence.
“I don’t know exactly where we’re going, but I know it’s somewhere exotic and somewhere we don’t normally go, but we should go as much as possible,” Haddish told People in a new interview. “That’s what I do know. We’re supposed to start shooting this summer.”
Last year, producer Will Packer acknowledged a followup to the 2017 riotous hit comedy was in the works and he had a script for the next installment. “We actually are looking at doing an exotic locale — I can’t reveal it right now, but I do have a script for the first time,” he said when asked if the sequel would take place at Ghana’s AfroFuture festival.
He also noted that, in addition to Haddish, stars Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith and Regina Hall would reprise their roles, teasing further that some new friends could enter the mix.
Packer first shared the movie was in its early stages during an appearance on Good Morning America in 2022.
“Can’t we all use a post-pandemic trip, my friend? I think that the time is actually right, and this is something that I will tell you and break right now at GMA: the Girls Trip 2 sequel — we are underway,” he said. “We are absolutely in the stages, the ladies are in, I just talked to the director.” At the time, Packer remarked that the focus was on figuring out “what kind of trip” to take the friends on.
Girls Trip, directed by Malcolm D. Lee and co-written by Kenya Barris and Tracy Oliver, centered on four women who rekindle their friendship during a New Orleans trip to attend the Essence Music Festival. The movie, which made a whopping $140 million at the box office on a budget of $19 million, also featured high-profile cameos from the likes of Common, Estelle, Ne-Yo, Morris Chestnut, Ava DuVernay, Faith Evans and Mariah Carey.
