But though no cinephile's life would be complete without a viewing of The Room — an experience one
early reviewer compared to «getting stabbed in the head» — there's no need to have seen it in order to enjoy The Disaster Artist, James Franco's hilarious and big - hearted adaptation of Sestero's memoir, starring Franco himself as the eccentric maestro and his brother Dave Franco as Sestero, a Sancho Panza — style sidekick to Wiseau's grandiose Quixote.
An instructive way of understanding the play's hard - earned aesthetic complexity which so plagued the
reviewers is to
compare an
earlier manuscript version (held by the Lilly Library, Indiana University) with the later published play (Houghton Muffin, 1958).