James Franco To Direct Movie About The Worst/Best Movie Ever Made, ‘The Room’

James Franco’s production company have acquired the rights to the book The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, a tell-all story about the making of the worst/best movie ever made.

The Room, for those of you who don’t know (shame on you), is a film written/directed/starring Tommy Wiseau that became a cult classic for being unintentionally hilarious. The movie still screens frequently across North America and Australia and has become a modern day Rocky Horror Picture Show to some. People turn up dressed as their favourite characters, shout out lines from the movie and throw spoons at the screen.

No, that’s not a typo. They actually throw spoons at the screen.

The book was co-written by Greg Sestero, an actor who starred in and also helped write The Room. It gives an insider’s account into how such a ridiculously bad movie was ever made.

As Franco has pretty much reached that point in his career where he can do whatever the hell he wants, he will both direct and star in The Disaster Artist along with his younger brother, Dave Franco. Late last year James Franco penned an article for Vice about The Disaster Artist and The Room, which basically reads like a love letter to Tommy Wiseau.

“He looks like he is from Bram Stoker’s Transylvania: ageless, muscled, sweet, and scary; he is part vampire, part Hollywood dreamer, part gangster, part Ed Wood, and super lonely.”

Adding a trailer to The Room wouldn’t give its level of ‘bad’ justice, so instead we’ve added this trailer about everything that’s wrong with The Room.

There are spoilers, but in truth there’s not a whole lot to spoil…

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Via Deadline

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