What excites Callow about the film is that people's notion of Dickens as a bearded
older, stuffy Victorian
writer, will be changed as in fact he was a father of four,
handsome, witty and lively guy who completed the novel at age 31.
Dave Franco plays wannabe actor Greg Sestero (
writer of the tell - all book on which this is based), a blandly
handsome San Francisco suburbanite who falls in with the secretive, much -
older Wiseau (James Franco, building an eerily accurate impression based mainly on The Room and its creator's inscrutable persona, but nothing deeper).