Oh hai, Mark!

[Daikun]

As everyone knows, The Room is the greatest movie ever made.

Two of the actors wrote a memoir, The Disaster Artist, talking about their experiences on the set, and now it's going to be adapted for the big screen.

(Talk about both movies here, by the way.)

[Avaitor]

I own the book, and it's excellent. Greg does a great job at confirming that Tommy Wiseau is even weirder in real life than any film could prove.

I don't think the movie will be any good. James Franco could not possibly compare to Tommy.

[talonmalon333]

I did not hit her I did not.

[Daikun]

[Daikun]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rir1WzZqwxE

[Daikun]

What if The Room was a Prince music video?

[Daikun]

Tommy Wiseau has a new movie coming out.

It's surprising he still has a career.

[Daikun]

Bob Odenkirk is remaking The Room.

Yes, really.

[Dr. Insomniac]

Every so often, I think about how Wiseau hasn't made anything since with The Room's infamy. In contrast to Neil Breen always making something his fans talk about, or Ed Wood having more than just Plan 9. And not for lack of trying, I remember that one sitcom he made, but everyone seemed to pass on that.

[Avaitor]

That sitcom did get made, at least for a few episodes. And another movie, with a third on the way.

But it took a while for all of these to happen. I think Wiseau's attitude is partly why. Ed Wood, from what I understand was a weird but relatively likable guy, and Tommy just isn't.

[Dr. Insomniac]

Might be the reason, though Tommy is at least good enough at keeping himself in the spotlight. Ed Wood struggled hard during his last decade of life, even his legacy beyond the movies referenced in the Burton biopic are hardly talked about beyond "Hey, didn't you know Ed Wood became a porn director before dying?" Nobody talks about those dozens of novels he wrote and published, for example. And at least Wiseau can enjoy his ironic fame while alive. Plan 9-mania only seemed to happen postmortem.

[Avaitor]

I think Tommy being independently wealthy has helped him in that regard. He can afford to allow the narrative go in any direction that he wants, while Wood didn't have that privilege.

[Dr. Insomniac]

Yeah, there's that. Though he's failed in that regard too. I remember he was furious that The Disaster Artist book and that Room Full of Spoons documentary revealed more about him than he wanted, and he couldn't get either to stop happening. While The Disaster Artist movie that painted him in a more whimsical light seems to be seen as just another Seth Rogen thing among hundreds of Seth Rogen things.

[Avaitor]

Oh, movie #3's trailer is out.

I like how halfway in, it devolves into a commercial for his underwear line.

[Dr. Insomniac]

Not the first time Wiseau badly misedited his ads.