The Disaster Artist: James Franco Somehow Makes A Convincing Hack
James Franco’s latest film is based on a true story and it attests that in showbiz what is determining is not luck or talent, but how badly you want to make it! The Disaster Artist is based on Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell’s non-fiction book The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made and chronicles the making of Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 cult film The Room, widely considered one of the worst movies ever made.
James Franco, besides directing the film, plays the lead role (Tommy Wiseau) and his brother Dave Franco stars as Greg Sestero － alongside a supporting cast featuring Seth Rogen, Alison Brie, Ari Graynor, Josh Hutcherson and Jacki Weaver. If you thought that James was overdoing it, when you’ll see the final credits that portray on a split screen the characters that inspired the film and the cast of The Disaster Artist reenacting them, you will notice they are spot on!
Wiseau’s character is very fascinating, for his mysterious identity. This American filmmaker, asserted that he grew up in New Orleans (despite his strong Eastern European accent), and no-one knew his real age nor the provenance of his limitless funds, that allowed him to own homes in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and finance a six million dollar movie!
Later it was speculated that Wiseau’s surname at birth was Wieczor and that he is of Polish origin. Apparently he gained the nickname ‘The Birdman’ for his bird toys, that led him to legally change his name to Thomas Pierre Wiseau, taking the French word for ‘bird,’ oiseau, and replacing the O with the W of his birth name. He rose to notoriety when he financed, wrote, directed and starred in the 2003 film The Room, widely considered one of the most disastrous films ever made. The financing of the movie has remained a source of intrigue. On several occasions many people involved with the making of this motion picture believed it to be part of some money-laundering scheme for organized crime. But these rumors never got confirmed. What happened instead is that it involuntarily turned into a comedic hit.
The talentless Tommy Wiseau － who was devotedly passionate about the great playwrights such as Tennessee Williams or William Shakespeare, and fervently tried to emulate Brando and Dean － launched himself into the cinematic realm fearlessly. Tommy Wiseau installed a huge poster on Highland Avenue, promoting an incredibly expensive vanity-film-project. Little does it matter that his poorly directed film was a romantic and torrid melodrama, that grossed only $ 1,800. He pursued his place in Hollywood with all his might and his fame grew through the oddity of who he was and claimed to be.
His dream was fulfilled, not in the way he expected, but Wiseau succeeded in gaining the attention he craved from the filmmaking milieu, to the extent that twenty years after the disappointing preview at Laemmle Fairfax, The Room continues to delight audiences around the world at night projections in North American cinemas, as well as in distant places such as Scandinavia, the UK and New Zealand. People of every social class continue to get crowded in groups to experience the experience of the bare vision of Wiseau, including some members of the Hollywood community, such as Zach Braff, J.J. Abrams, Jonah Hill, Will Arnett and Kristen Bell, who have taken a copy of the film from the early days, beginning to organize parties with vision for their friends.
Today, this enigmatic black-tinted figure and his BFF Sestero continue to make films together, thanks to Wiseau’s limitless personal fortune. One would wonder if Tommy Wiseau helped James Franco finance The Disaster Movie too!
James Franco’s latest film is based on a true story and it attests that in showbiz what is determining is not luck or talent, but how badly you want to make it! The Disaster Artist is based on Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell’s non-fiction book The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made and chronicles the making of Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 cult film The Room, widely considered one of the worst movies ever made.
James Franco, besides directing the film, plays the lead role (Tommy Wiseau) and his brother Dave Franco stars as Greg Sestero － alongside a supporting cast featuring Seth Rogen, Alison Brie, Ari Graynor, Josh Hutcherson and Jacki Weaver. If you thought that James was overdoing it, when you’ll see the final credits that portray on a split screen the characters that inspired the film and the cast of The Disaster Artist reenacting them, you will notice they are spot on!
Wiseau’s character is very fascinating, for his mysterious identity. This American filmmaker, asserted that he grew up in New Orleans (despite his strong Eastern European accent), and no-one knew his real age nor the provenance of his limitless funds, that allowed him to own homes in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and finance a six million dollar movie!
Later it was speculated that Wiseau’s surname at birth was Wieczor and that he is of Polish origin. Apparently he gained the nickname ‘The Birdman’ for his bird toys, that led him to legally change his name to Thomas Pierre Wiseau, taking the French word for ‘bird,’ oiseau, and replacing the O with the W of his birth name. He rose to notoriety when he financed, wrote, directed and starred in the 2003 film The Room, widely considered one of the most disastrous films ever made. The financing of the movie has remained a source of intrigue. On several occasions many people involved with the making of this motion picture believed it to be part of some money-laundering scheme for organized crime. But these rumors never got confirmed. What happened instead is that it involuntarily turned into a comedic hit.
The talentless Tommy Wiseau － who was devotedly passionate about the great playwrights such as Tennessee Williams or William Shakespeare, and fervently tried to emulate Brando and Dean － launched himself into the cinematic realm fearlessly. Tommy Wiseau installed a huge poster on Highland Avenue, promoting an incredibly expensive vanity-film-project. Little does it matter that his poorly directed film was a romantic and torrid melodrama, that grossed only $ 1,800. He pursued his place in Hollywood with all his might and his fame grew through the oddity of who he was and claimed to be.
His dream was fulfilled, not in the way he expected, but Wiseau succeeded in gaining the attention he craved from the filmmaking milieu, to the extent that twenty years after the disappointing preview at Laemmle Fairfax, The Room continues to delight audiences around the world at night projections in North American cinemas, as well as in distant places such as Scandinavia, the UK and New Zealand. People of every social class continue to get crowded in groups to experience the experience of the bare vision of Wiseau, including some members of the Hollywood community, such as Zach Braff, J.J. Abrams, Jonah Hill, Will Arnett and Kristen Bell, who have taken a copy of the film from the early days, beginning to organize parties with vision for their friends.
Today, this enigmatic black-tinted figure and his BFF Sestero continue to make films together, thanks to Wiseau’s limitless personal fortune. One would wonder if Tommy Wiseau helped James Franco finance The Disaster Movie too!
