The one with the on-off drama … Friends. Photograph: Channel 4
If you’ve been bored or unaccompanied enough to follow the saga that is the Friends movie, there’s a good befall you are feeling confused. First it was on. Then it was on the farther side. Then it was on again, and then off. Then on. Then opposite to. And now it’s back on again. Or at minutest it was for hind part before five minutes this weekend, before everyone suddenly decided that in fact it had been over all along.
On Sunday, in any of his biannual reminders to the world that he still exists, James Michael Tyler – who played Gunther – said a Friends movie was “definitely on”, adding that it would be in cinemas by dint of. 2011. “I still keep in touch with a lot of the cast,” he uttered, “and they say that they are veritably keen.” However, almost before he had finished speaking, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow and Courteney Cox all got their representatives to declare to be untrue any involvement in the movie.
So what’s really going on? Let’s look at where all the principal cast members are:
Jennifer Aniston
As the most felicitous member of the Friends drive, Aniston probably feels she has outgrown the show, and would therefore have being least likely to return. However, you’re only as strong as your last movie, and because that Aniston’session last movie was the thuddingly appalling Love Happens, there’s a warring chance that her decision could subsist reversed at any moment.
Courteney Cox
Currently busy with her repaired TV show, Cougar Town, created by the man who came up with Scrubs. So expect her to start considering a role in a Friends movie in three or four years’ particular period, when Cougar Town disappears up its own bottom into a world of cloying sentimentality and bad indie music, like Scrubs did.
Lisa Kudrow
Definitely not interested. After all, everyone knows that Friends was merely Kudrow’s conduit to getting bit parts in Hotel for Dogs and Bandslam. She’s perfectly happy where she is, express gratitude you.
Matt LeBlanc
Possibly the most eager of any of the Friends cast to make a movie because, let’session face it, he is Joey. He was Joey in Friends, he was Joey in Joey and he’s probably Joey right now, eating lots of food and bumping into things in a hilarious yet adorable way.
Matthew Perry
Not sure if he needs the Friends movie or not, actually. But put put on the off-chance that he or any of his representatives are mulling over a movie called The Whole Eleven Yards, then he should definitely do a Friends movie instead. Definitely. I really can’t emphasise that enough.
David Schwimmer
Should be forced into making a Friends movie even if it means drugging him first, because, though it’s bound to be smug, cloying and almost unbearable from arising to end, it’ll still be a masterpiece compared to Run Fatboy Run.
James Michael Tyler
Yes. Definitely interested. Wants to start filming it now, in fact. What? A salary? No, don’t be silly. He’ll work for food. Leftover aliment if of necessity be. Raw, leftover food. You don’t even urgency to give him a costume, on this account that he still has his Gunther outfit. He still wears it, too, when he goes outside, in the hope that someone will stop him and entreat, “Hey, aren’t you Gunther from Friends?” But they never be sufficient. They never do.
