While promoting the second season of the Amazon Prime series Harlem, Oliver shared “Critical ‘Girls Trip 2′” update, saying the sequel is “officially underway.” Providing the plot, Oliver joked that co-producer Will Packer “I could be killed, we’re looking to set it up in Ghana.”
The ladies of Girls Trip want to attend the popular Afrochella (Afro Future) festival held annually in Ghana, which attracts top music acts from the region.
Girls Trip by Malcolm D. Directed by Lee, it was produced by Will Packer and co-written by Kenya Barris and Oliver from a story developed with Erica Rivinoza.
With a low $16 million budget, the first GIRLS TRIP was a huge box office success, grossing $140 million globally. It also helped the recently controversial hadith to become a household word.
Girls Trip is about four best friends, 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 headline the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans, she decides to bring her friends to replace her work vacation. Girls trip.
Joining Ryan is former Time magazine journalist Sasha (Queen Latifah), who now owns a gossip site and is struggling financially; Lisa (Jada Pinkett Smith), a nurse and mom who hasn’t had a boyfriend since her divorce years ago, and Dina (Tiffany Haddish), a happy-go-lucky, impulsive animal, fired after assaulting a co-worker shortly before the trip. While on tour, Sasha is sent a tip that a black man’s head is kissing an Instagram model, thought to be Ryan’s husband, Stewart.
The friends are hesitant to tell Ryan, but when Dina spills the news, Ryan shocks her by telling her that he’s already aware of the situation and that he’s in couples counseling. Nevertheless, when Dina sees Stewart at their hotel, she threatens him with a broken bottle, resulting in her being kicked out and banned from the hotel. In unison, all the girls leave with her, but the only hotel they can afford is a dirty one-star motel frequented by prostitutes.