Get your suitcases and sunglasses ready, the “Girls Trip” sequel is taking us to West Africa!
Writer-director-producer Tracy Oliver, who co-wrote the original 2017 romp, joined the Variety Studio presented by Audible at Sundance Film Festival and provided an update on the anticipated reunion of Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Tiffany Haddish.
Oliver was at the Sundance Film Festival to promote the second season of her Amazon Prime Video series “Harlem,” said to Variety Magazine that she had a “definitive ‘Girls Trip 2’ update. That it’s officially happening. I can say that.” She also provided a plot update, and while the film’s producer Will Packer “might kill me, we’re looking to set it in Ghana.”
The first “Girls Trip” was a significant box office hit, grossing $140 million worldwide on a modest $16 million budget. Malcolm D. Lee directed the project, produced by Packer and co-written by Olvier and Kenya Barris from a story they conceived with Erica Rivinoja. It also launched the recently-embattled Haddish into superstardom.
GHANA GAINS TOURISM EXPOSURE
Popularity for Ghana has grown tremendously over the last several years, especially with The Year of Return, Ghana 2019, an initiative of the government of Ghana – along with the U.S.-based Adinkra Group – that is intended to encourage African diasporans to come to Africa (specifically Ghana) to explore, settle and invest in the continent.
The Year of Return (2019) was formally launched by President Nana Akufo-Addo in September 2018 in Washington, D.C. as a program for Africans in the diaspora to unite with Africans. The year 2019 is symbolic as it commemorated 400 years since the first enslaved Africans touched down in Hampton, in the English colony of Virginia in America.
Year of Return and Destination Ghana’ had made to the country’s tourism drive as record number of tourists were visiting the country. In 2019, up to 1.5 million tourists, including celebrities, politicians and world leaders visited the country by the end of the year with up to 1.9 billion dollars is estimated to have been accrued in revenue as a result of the Year of Return activities. So, Girls Trip 2 will most likely enhance exposure and increase tourism for the country of Ghana.
