While promoting the second season of the Amazon Prime series Harlem, Oliver shared that he has a “The definitive ‘Girls Trip 2’ update”, says the sequel is “officially happening.” Also providing the plot, Oliver joked that co-producer Will Packer “It might kill me, we want to set it up in Ghana.”
The ladies of Girls Trip will appear to attend the popular Afrochella (Afro Future) festival that takes place in Ghana every year attracting important musical acts from the region.
Girls Trip directed by Malcolm D. Lee, produced by Will Packer and co-written by Kenya Barris and Oliver from a plot they developed with Erica Rivinoja.
With a low budget of $16 million, GIRLS TRIP was the first box office success, earning $140 million globally. It also helped Haddish, who has been in controversy lately, become a household name.
Girls Trip is about Four best friends, in the “Flossy Posse”, who have grown apart over the years. When lifestyle guru Ryan Pierce (Regina Hall), dubbed “the next Oprah”, is offered the chance to be the keynote speaker at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans, she decides to bring her friends along for a working vacation. girl trip
Joining Ryan is Sasha (Queen Latifah), a former reporter from Time Magazine who now owns a terrible gossip site and is struggling financially; Lisa (Jada Pinkett Smith), a nurse and mother who hasn’t had a boyfriend since her divorce last year and Dina (Tiffany Haddish), a fun-loving and impulsive party animal who was fired after assaulting a co-worker. before the trip. During the trip, Sasha was sent a tip showing a picture of a black man’s head kissing an Instagram model, believed to be Ryan’s husband, Stewart.
The friends are reluctant to tell Ryan, but when Dina breaks the news, Ryan surprises them by telling them that they already know about the situation and that they are in couple’s counseling. However, when Dina sees Stewart at the hotel, he threatens her with a broken bottle, causing her to be kicked out and banned from the hotel. In solidarity all the girls leave with him, but the only hotel they can find is a shabby one-star motel frequented by prostitute customers.