It's official! The Friends reunion, called "The One Where They Get Back Together," starts streaming on HBO Max on Thursday, May 27, around midnight Pacific time.

The official trailer shows the cast getting back together on the original Friends studio, testing their trivia knowledge of the show , revisiting key sets, re-reading their lines and joining James Corden for a joint sit-down interview in front of a live audience.


ALL THE STARS ARE COMING BACK.

Jennifer Aniston (Rachel), Courteney Cox (Monica), Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe), Matt LeBlanc (Joey), Matthew Perry (Chandler), and David Sch
wimmer (Ross) will reunite at the original Friends soundstage—Stage 24, at the Warner Bros. Studio in Burbank—to film. All six stars will also executive produce.

The Late Late Show writer Ben Winston will direct. He's also an executive producer, along with Friends EPs Kevin Bright, Marta Kauffman, and David Crane; and Emma Conway and James Longman.

When the reunion news was announced, the leads all shared the same photo and caption on Instagram—"It's happening"—and tagged each other. (Good thing Aniston and Perry are now on the app.) The image, shot by Mark Seliger, is from the May 18, 1995 issue of Rolling Stone.


THE CAST WILL REPORTEDLY MAKE MILLIONS.

Sources told The Hollywood Reporter that the stars negotiated their fees together and will be paid between $2.5 million and $3 million each for the reunion special. That's much more than the $1 million-per-episode rates they had when Friends was still running.

FANS CAN PARTICIPATE IN WATCH PARTIES THROUGH SCENER.

Starting May 27 at 12:01 a.m. PDT, viewers can watch the Friends reunion with their real-life friends through a virtual watch party on Scener. Users will need to create a profile at Scener and have an HBO Max subscription to watch.