Have you seen The Room? Not the 2015 one about a mother and her child. The other one.
The 2003 film is famous for being among the best worst films ever made—worst in the sense it misses almost every beat possible, best in the sense it is highly, highly entertaining to watch. It was directed, written, and produced by its star, Tommy Wiseau, a strange (but in some ways endearing) example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. The film was so strange it prompted one of its actors, Greg Sestero, to co-author a book on the making of the film, entitled The Disaster Artist. It's a highly interesting (at times unbearably funny, at other times awfully sad) read, and it deserved its place on the bestseller lists.
The book is now being into a film, directed by former James Franco. Franco plays Wiseau opposite his brother Dave, portraying Sestero. Seth Rogen will also star as Room script supervisor Sandy Schklair.
The studio has released a clip from The Disaster Artist, depicting an actual incident from the making of The Room.
"Based on the true story of one movie so bad it became infamous," the teaser announces.
The book itself is recommended, as is a viewing party of The Room—with friends who've never seen it, if possible.
