Not exact matches
Word
got around that
Wiseau's travesty, as poorly written as it was poorly
made and poorly acted, had the special sauce of a memorable bad
movie.
«The Disaster Artist» takes a curiously long time to
get to the actual
making of «The Room,» and one might expect all that lead - up — during which Sestero and
Wiseau move to L.A., where they share the latter's one - room pied à terre — to serve in establishing the foundation for the dysfunctional buddy
movie this really ought to be.
Cult filmmaker Tommy
Wiseau («The Room») critiques what actor - director James Franco
got right — and wrong — in «The Disaster Artist,» based on
Wiseau's own legendary experience
making the best - worst
movie of all time.
Franco said he saw in
Wiseau a kindred spirit: «I really respected that he came out to Hollywood like so many millions of people have done, and he
got this
movie made.»
The closest we've
gotten to understanding the man is a book on the
making of The Room cowritten by
Wiseau's close friend and collaborator Greg Sestero, who plays the other male peg in the
movie's love triangle.
Well
get ahead of the curve and familiarize yourself with the source material; the insane world of Tommy
Wiseau's masterpiece The Room — the greatest bad
movie ever
made.
What's inspiring is Tommy
Wiseau's conviction in
getting this crazy
movie made, a saga now portrayed in «The Disaster Artist.»
And the story
gets even stranger when you tell it, as Franco does, from the perspective of
Wiseau's friend and collaborator, Greg Sestero; Franco's film is based on Sestero's memoir The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad
Movie Ever
Made, which he co-wrote with Tom Bissell.