Fans of Friends, our time is getting closer. What at the time seemed like a utopia could soon be a reality. Yes, we talked about the return of the iconic series through HBO Max. These are the latest data we know about it.
A million dollar deal with HBO Max
The followers of Friends we have spent years asking for the return of the series. For a while there were rumors about a movie for the cinema, a special season of few chapters and there was even talk of a special documentary. Any type of format was valid to calm the longing aliveHowever, none of these proposals was ever confirmed: they were nothing more than rumors that with the passage of time lost strength until they disappeared.
The latest leak in this regard, however, is more alive than ever and, for the first time in a long time, it does have a good chance of becoming real. The reason? The numerous data (and signals) that we already handle in this regard and the fact that a content platform such as HBO Max is behind.
Precisely WarnerMedia, owner of this service, is the one that would have already reached an agreement with the six protagonists. According to Deadline, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc and Matthew Perry have already closed the contract for which they would earn between 3 and 4 million dollars every day.
Television to do what I listen to would be a one hour special. No one would comment, but I heard that each of the six stars will be paid between 3 and 4 million dollars for appearing in the special, whose format is still unknown but which would last around one hour.
It has not been an easy task. According to what is said, the first conversations in this regard began last year and although there were several meetings -which could give more context to the famous photo of the six actors gathered in a house that Jennifer Aniston uploaded a few months ago to her Instagram account-, the interested parties did not reach any agreement. The creative director of HBO Max, Kevin Reilly, came to throw balls out when he was asked about the matter in mid-January, which made many think that this project would not finally come to fruition.
Something, however, changed recently and negotiations resumed, resulting in an agreement that would already be signed. Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Chandler, Joey and Ross, now yes, they could return to the small screen soon.
The clues of Matthew Perry
We say that we have also witnessed the occasional clue that would only give context to this whole story. If he Selfie de Aniston confirmed that the six were up to something, the tweet that Matthew Perry published just two days ago is not far behind either.
It turns out that the actor wrote in his account Twitter a very short but very mysterious phrase that has put the whole world on alert. Watch out for the tweet:
Big news coming…
- matthew perry (@MatthewPerry) February 5, 2020
Yes. The actor in charge of giving life to Chandler wrote "Big news is coming...", which has only fueled the rumors of his return. That together with the parallel information of Deadline they do nothing more than establish a good base on which to build a possibility that now does have more sense than ever.
As if that were not enough, the actor too Instagram account has been created, shortly after her co-star in Friends, Jennifer Aniston. The baptized as "America's girlfriend" of the 90s even made a historical record on the social network with the photo of the six protagonists, achieving the largest number of likes in record time. Courteney Cox (Monica) was in charge of announcing the arrival of her inseparable friend on her account. Now it has been Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe) who has done the same with matthew's premiere on the platform...
Is it a coincidence or are they preparing the ground? Let me lean towards the latter.