That’s like SO Friends the Movie

To be fair we didn’t expect these guys to cave in first. George Lucas was a more likely bet to produce another Star Wars trilogy tracing the last days of Chewbacca’s descension into bestiality.

However, two of Friends’ biggest cast members Jennifer Aniston (DVDs) and David Schwimmer (DVDs), have hinted at a possible big screen version of the whitest sitcom in the whole world ever.

So, where’s everybody been in the meantime?

David Schwimmer’s busy doing crappy theatre nobody watches. Lisa Kudrow (DVDs) is filming a TV series about a former sitcom star trying to carve out a new career [sic]. Matthew Perry (DVDs) is in production on a movie about a hippy ranch hand who falls for the wrong girl (sounds promising). Matt Le Blanc (DVDs) is wearily digging his way further and further to the centre of spin off hell with Joey. And Jennifer Aniston is doing a lot of talking about her philandering husband. The bastard.

All the groovy gang are busy, but then you’d expect them to be. They were in the biggest sitcom on the planet for longer than most people remain married.

The Sunday Express is claiming that the entire cast are set to reunite for Friends: The Movie at a proposed fee of $10 million a pop.

That’s a sixty million dollar budget before anyone’s even grabbed the writers out of rehab. When you consider that Star Wars: The Revenge of the Sith (DVDs) cost $75 million all told, that is gonna end up being one heck of an expensive reunion party.

"Although the cast have gone their different ways, none of them has quite repeated the success they had with Friends.” an insider told the Express.

We might want to give them all longer than five minutes. Or alternatively we could just poke fun at the scriptwriters’ puppets for being one-trick has-beens. Better to be a has-been than a nobody? Only their therapists will know for sure.

"And while Friends may be over as a television entity there are many who have believed for some time that people had not quite had enough of them just yet.”

If you can put up with the screeching row that is Will and Grace (DVDs) then you might be inclined to disagree. Though for all of us that miss the calmer wit of Frasier (DVDs), any chance to live in the past for a couple of hours might actually be a good thing.

Friends was never as bad as struggling rebels with a penchant for seldom-heard bands and black comedies about teenage drug addicts made it out to be. There is such a thing as trying too hard to be different. Laughing at The Royal Tenenbaums (DVDs) being a good example.

"David Schwimmer and Jennifer Aniston are the first to make positive noises regarding the film and it is thought once they are on board the others will follow suit."

‘positive noises’ could mean anything from breaking wind to clicking their fingers at the possibility of another free non-fat latte.

Chances are though that Friends will be a movie in the next three years, especially with the potential numbers involved. The big question is how it’ll play without a laughter track for two hours?

A hundred and twenty minutes of not knowing when Lisa Kudrow’s supposed to be funny? Honestly think they’ll take the risk..?

[story by Chris Laverty]