Just don’t hurt yourself.” So he’s, like, taking ownership and getting credit for making this comedy, but I don’t think that’s what he intended at the start. When he was making it he said to Greg, “Nobody will be able to sleep for two weeks after watching this movie because it’s so dramatic.” But he says now, “The Room is a safe place, you can do whatever you like. But he added a lot of crazy, dark comedy. Yeah, but there’s a lot of weird mental gymnastics that go on and a lot of rewriting of the history, you know? The original poster said: “Tennessee Williams-level drama.” So that’s what he was aiming for.

He was definitely proud of it and he still is. I don’t know that he made the movie he wanted to make.ĭAVE FRANCO, who plays Greg Sestero in The Disaster Artist JAMES FRANCO, who plays Wiseau in The Disaster Artist, which he also directs The aesthetically singular, dramatically incomprehensible tale stars Wiseau as a happy-go-lucky fellow named Johnny, whose relationship with the devoted Lisa (Juliette Danielle) is destroyed by his obsession that she’s cheating on him with his best friend, Mark (Greg Sestero). In the summer of 2003, filmmaker Tommy Wiseau released a movie called The Room. Weber based on the book by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, with James Franco, Dave Franco, Alison Brie and Ari Graynor. Actor Greg Sestero, Tommy’s costar and longtime best friend, recounts the film’s bizarre journey to infamy, unraveling mysteries for fans (like, who is Steven? And what’s with that hospital on Guerrero Street?)-as well as the most important question: how the hell did a movie this awful ever get made? But more than just a riotously funny story about cinematic hubris, “ The Disaster Artist is one of the most honest books about friendship I’ve read in years” ( Los Angeles Times).THE DISASTER ARTIST directed by James Franco, written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Hailed by The Huffington Post as “possibly the most important piece of literature ever printed,” The Disaster Artist is the hilarious, behind-the-scenes story of a deliciously awful cinematic phenomenon as well as the story of an odd and inspiring Hollywood friendship. Years later, it’s an international cult phenomenon, whose legions of fans attend screenings featuring costumes, audience rituals, merchandising, and thousands of plastic spoons. Described by one reviewer as “like getting stabbed in the head,” the $6 million film earned a grand total of $1,800 at the box office and closed after two weeks. In 2003, an independent film called The Room-starring and written, produced, and directed by a mysteriously wealthy social misfit named Tommy Wiseau-made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles. New York Times bestseller- now a major motion picture directed by and starring James Franco!įrom the actor who somehow lived through it all, a “sharply detailed…funny book about a cinematic comedy of errors” ( The New York Times): the making of the cult film phenomenon The Room.

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