Friends reunion special: First trailer, guest stars and premiere date revealed

The long-awaited Friends reunion special will air on HBO Max on May 27. Photo / Getty Images

It's the moment Friends fans have been waiting for - the full-cast reunion finally has an official release date.

HBO Max announced today that it will air the unscripted Friends: The Reunion on May 27. Beloved stars Jennifer Aniston Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer will all return to the screen, reports People.

And as well as the original cast, the reunion special directed by Ben Winston will feature a host of all-star guests from David Beckham to Justin Bieber, BTS, James Corden, Cindy Crawford, Cara Delevingne, Lady Gaga, Elliott Gould, Kit Harington, Larry Hankin, Mindy Kaling, Thomas Lennon, Christina Pickles, Tom Selleck, James Michael Tyler, Maggie Wheeler, Reese Witherspoon and Malala Yousafzai.

News of the official release comes after Cox teased how "emotional" it was when filming wrapped in April, telling the Ellen DeGeneres show on May 6: "It's an unscripted reunion but we got to be on Stage 24 for the first time, all of us, in like … I forgot how many years. 15 years? Or 17 years?"

The reunion was first announced in February 2020, originally set to launch on HBO Max last May, but the Covid-19 pandemic led to production being halted twice.

But this also gave them more time to make it "even more exciting", Aniston told Deadline last August.

"So I choose to see it as the glass is half-full that it got postponed. Look, we're not going anywhere. You're never going to get rid of Friends, sorry. You're stuck with us for life guys."

The long-awaited Friends reunion special will air on HBO Max on May 27. Photo / Getty Images

And Schwimmer shared on the Graham Norton Show in April that he was heading to Los Angeles to shoot the reunion.

"I'm going to see everyone next week for the first time in many years," he added.

Friends aired for 10 seasons from 1994 to 2004 on NBC. And leading up to the reunion, US network TBS announced it will air all 236 episodes of the show in their Friends: From The Beginning marathon, running until June 4.

Friends: The Reunion premieres May 27 on HBO Max.