FINALLLLLLLLLLY!
It’s happening, we can hardly believe it, but it actually IS HAPPENING.
The entire cast of Friends are in the process of finalising their agreements for a reunion special.
We can’t believe it.
The six stars, Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer and Lisa Kudrow, will reportedly earn between $2.25 million and $2.5 million for the show.
A decent day in the office, so.
Apparently, they were each initially offered $1 million, but this was turned down, and it was back to the negotiating table.
After some early back-and-forth between the cast’s representatives, the negotiations came to a standstill at the end of 2019, with the actors and Warner Bros.
“There is interest all around, and yet we can’t get the interests all alighted to push the button on it,” HBO Max’s Chief Creative Officer Kevin Reilly said at the time. “Today it’s just maybe.”
However, it isn’t the reunion you think – in that it isn’t a reboot of the show and the characters.
The special is reportedly a one-time show that will last only one hour.
It will be ‘a retrospective and interviews with the cast’ and potentially hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, so that’s epic.
During a Friends 25th anniversary panel at Tribeca TV Festival in September, the show’s co-creators Kauffman and Crane shut the door on possible reboot or scripted reunion that would revisit the characters and stories from the hit series.
“We will not be doing a reunion show, we will not be doing a reboot,” Kauffman said. “The show was about that time in life when friends are your family,” she explained, adding that life changes when your family becomes your family.
And a reboot? No. “It’s not going to beat what we did,” Kauffman said.
Added Crane: “We did the show we wanted to do. We got it right, and we put a bow on it.”
