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The unwritten special, which would bring together stars Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry, Lisa Kudrow and Matt LeBlanc, as well as creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman, would be filmed next week, but was postponed at least until May.
When it finally seemed that Friends fans would have their long-awaited meeting, the coronavirus’s emergence has caused the delay of the long-awaited special episode. The unwritten special, which would bring together stars Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry, Lisa Kudrow and Matt LeBlanc, as well as creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman, would be filmed next week, but has now been delayed until May at the earliest. The special was expected to help launch HBO Max in May and be an add-on to the original series, which WarnerMedia acquired for $400 million. The company beat Netflix in the battle for rights, after the comedy originally aired its 10 seasons on NBC. According to THR, the cast will earn more than double their previous salary per episode for the meeting, a figure set between two and a half and three million dollars. The cast has already renegotiated their salaries during the original series’s broadcast to one million per episode, a record figure on television. In addition to reaching a financial agreement, timetable coordination was also a central issue in the agreement. Aniston, for example, is also working on Apple’s The Morning Show, which is among the fictionals that have stopped production by the coronavirus pandemic. Cox recently signed on to headline a Starz horror comedy. LeBlanc leads the cast of the CBS comedy Man With a Plan, while Schwimmer stars in a European drama to be broadcast in Peacock.
