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I think it could work.
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# ? Feb 9, 2014 23:55 |
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DannyTanner posted:Last night on Twitter: Has that ever been confirmed as his? It seems legit but I've never been able to tell for sure.
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# ? Feb 10, 2014 05:21 |
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Baron von der Loon posted:I want this book turned into a movie. It'd make for an excellent feel-good comedy movie.
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# ? Feb 10, 2014 09:55 |
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I sort of want Wiseau to play himself, but obviously that's impossible. I feel like trying to direct him to play himself would send him swinging back to the other side of the spectrum and he'd just metamorph into James Dean as he always hoped to be.
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# ? Feb 10, 2014 17:57 |
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ZorajitZorajit posted:I sort of want Wiseau to play himself, but obviously that's impossible. I feel like trying to direct him to play himself would send him swinging back to the other side of the spectrum and he'd just metamorph into James Dean as he always hoped to be. Have you seen Spring Breakers? James Franco is basically the perfect man for the role. Tommy Wiseau is essentially just a different version of Alien. "Some people about change. Want to change world. Not me. I'm about stacking up change! All this poo poo, this poo poo is all mine! Look at poo poo! I smell nice, I have the nunchucks, my bed is no Mickey Mouse stuff, is art piece!"
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# ? Feb 10, 2014 22:26 |
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ZorajitZorajit posted:I sort of want Wiseau to play himself, but obviously that's impossible. I feel like trying to direct him to play himself would send him swinging back to the other side of the spectrum and he'd just metamorph into James Dean as he always hoped to be. I want Wiseau to play himself and be so weird on the shoot again that Franco has to write a behind-the-scenes book about it, which gets made into a movie itself with Wiseau starring in it again, and so on. It's Wiseaus all the way down.
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# ? Feb 11, 2014 17:33 |
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MorgaineDax posted:I want Wiseau to play himself and be so weird on the shoot again that Franco has to write a behind-the-scenes book about it, which gets made into a movie itself with Wiseau starring in it again, and so on.
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# ? Feb 11, 2014 19:49 |
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Seeing other actors recreate scenes from the original movie is going to be amazing. Who's gonna play Chris-R? That's what I wanna know.
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# ? Feb 11, 2014 21:07 |
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Christopher Walken.
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# ? Feb 11, 2014 22:32 |
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Xylorjax posted:Christopher Walken. You'd take a national treasure like Walken and relegate his talent to simply "WHERE'S MY loving MONEY, DENNY?!"? Nah, let Dan...ArmenianLastName play himself. Because he kinda scares me.
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# ? Feb 12, 2014 10:22 |
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Pretty sure we need Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson for Chris-R's character. Or Mark Wahlberg. I recently watched Pain & Gain, apologies.
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# ? Feb 12, 2014 18:01 |
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Ensign_Ricky posted:You'd take a national treasure like Walken and relegate his talent to simply "WHERE'S MY loving MONEY, DENNY?!"? That's not a bad idea either, but I was just picturing angry Walken yelling at, say, Shia LeBouf Denny.
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# ? Feb 12, 2014 18:10 |
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Xylorjax posted:That's not a bad idea either, but I was just picturing angry Walken yelling at, say, Shia LeBouf Denny. Actually, that's kinda spot-on casting. Why can I see the beef playing that role so easily???
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# ? Feb 13, 2014 22:00 |
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The Room's FB page posted this as someone's dream cast kind of deal, and I'd be all for it. https://scontent-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1/1511801_10152301513479497_1906670890_n.jpg The book was fantastic, I had to order the signed version to go with my signed Blu-Ray of the movie. I'm very excited for this film adaptation.
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# ? Feb 17, 2014 01:01 |
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Jon Voight is way too old to play Tommy, but I'd still like to see it. Also the rest of that cast list looks perfect. I hope they end up going with at least some of those choices. Michael Cera as Denny would have me dying laughing.
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# ? Feb 17, 2014 01:07 |
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I do not want to see Ryan Seacrest's blowjob face.
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# ? Feb 17, 2014 01:12 |
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I do not want to see Jon Voight's bare thrusting rear end.
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# ? Feb 17, 2014 07:25 |
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Xylorjax posted:I do not want to see Jon Voight's bare thrusting rear end. Whoever plays Tommy, I hope they use him as a body double for the rear end scenes.
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# ? Feb 17, 2014 07:36 |
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savinhill posted:Whoever plays Tommy, I hope they use him as a body double for the rear end scenes. Tommy has to show his rear end, or the movie won't sell!
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# ? Feb 17, 2014 10:22 |
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The rear end shot scares my wife!
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# ? Feb 17, 2014 10:26 |
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CelticPredator posted:The rear end shot scares my wife! I'm pretty sure it scares God Himself.
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# ? Feb 18, 2014 08:47 |
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The Room's sex scenes are The Room of The Room.
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# ? Feb 18, 2014 10:36 |
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I'm halfways through the book and it's good on many levels. The difficulties of a young actor who wants to make it, the pathetic, scary delusion of a damaged immigrant trying to american-dream himself into someone else, the story behind the weird things in the movies. It's all interesting and nicely presented. It's a shame we already know the ending, though. Without context, I'd be betting on the book taking a dark turn and Tommy gutting Sestero and wearing his skin to a casting call. Or pulling a Se7en and beheading Sestero's pregnant wife.
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 21:03 |
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Sephyr posted:I'm halfways through the book and it's good on many levels. The difficulties of a young actor who wants to make it, the pathetic, scary delusion of a damaged immigrant trying to american-dream himself into someone else, the story behind the weird things in the movies. It's all interesting and nicely presented. That is being saved for part 2.
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 21:05 |
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I hope Tommy plays himself in the movie, he would have no idead what was going on
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# ? Feb 27, 2014 16:15 |
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You guys should follow Greg on twitter.
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# ? Feb 27, 2014 19:48 |
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Jabronie posted:You guys should follow Greg on twitter.
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# ? Feb 27, 2014 21:46 |
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Jabronie posted:You guys should follow Greg on twitter. Holy poo poo, they need to release that whole thing to the public because drat.
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# ? Feb 27, 2014 23:02 |
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Old Man Donkey?
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# ? Feb 27, 2014 23:06 |
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EvanSchenck posted:After reading the book I thought there were two possibilities, or some combination of them: That said, after all the craziness in Wiseau's life, I wouldn't be surprised if it was something as simple and banal as #1. I mean, who says that Street Fashions USA is an illegitimate business? Shady, sure, but selling cheaply-manufactured clothes as "designer" wear at a fat markup is neither illegal nor rare. Evil Mastermind posted:The Adventures of Chris-R would be an amazing movie. Just an hour and a half of him holding a gun to someone's head and yelling "WHERE'S MY loving MONEY?" over and over. Beeez posted:Yeah, I can buy most of the story Greg says Tommy has told him of his past, but I bet there's a lot more degradation we're not privy to, especially with all the emphasis the book places on mysterious old men taking a shine to Tommy, one of which is confirmed to have tried to convince Tommy to "suck him off". On one hand I respect them for not elaborating on every lurid detail because even someone as crazy and histrionic as Tommy deserves some privacy, but this book does make me even more curious about certain aspects of Tommy Wiseau's life. As creepy and manipulative and histrionic as he's portrayed, the book also made me pity Tommy a lot more in a weird way. It really does seem like, at least at the time the book is discussing, Greg was the only person rescuing Tommy from complete loneliness. ZorajitZorajit posted:I finished it over the weekend and, well, wow. I hadn't really pegged The Room as something as unique as it may be. The surrealist American dream is really remarkable. Even if his flight from Poland and episodes in France were completely fabricated, Wiseau may be a more important contemporary figure than his terrible movie first appears. Here's a man, enamored with Hollywood, who builds an empire chasing a futile dream. A dream that absolutely breaks him, but never seems to stop driving him. And, now, personally both believes himself to have succeded fully and is widely regarded as a madman for doing so. Wiseau may well be a sociopath, but The Room may just be the tragedy he intended it to be. Evil Mastermind posted:What amazes me about the behind-the-scenes stuff is how utterly lacking Tommy is when it comes to basic empathy. He doesn't seem to understand other people except in relation to himself and what he wants. And when he gets cornered on something, he honestly doesn't seem to get how to deal with it. Tommy's not the first filmmaker with an irreconcilable desire for both publicity and privacy, but his deep insecurity regarding the most superficial facts about himself is in a class by itself. It doesn't seem to occur to him that he can't be a celebrity and a cipher at the same time. It's very telling that he's fascinated with James Dean and Marlon Brando, the handsome young All-American filled to the brim with inner turmoil. I don't think Wiseau really wanted to be an actor, or even a star. It's just a typical American dream, one that a man could delude himself into thinking he can buy his way into...and Tommy is very rich and so terribly alienated and alone.
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# ? Apr 9, 2014 19:37 |
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Halloween Jack posted:I'm about 2/3rds through the book and just reached the part where Tommy goes flying down the road while throwing a temper tantrum at Greg for talking about him to all those friends. I know I've said this before, but at that point in the book I was honestly scared for Greg's life. Like, my actual thought was "Oh God, Tommy's going to kill Greg!" It was closely followed by "wait, Greg wrote this," but still.
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# ? Apr 9, 2014 20:02 |
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I'm not going to say that Tommy is a psychopath (that always seems to me like an easy answer), but he certainly seems constitutionally incapable of understanding any perspective but his own incredibly bizarre one. The only time he seems to be able to relate to other people is in terms of a battle of wills. He definitely comes across to me as a narcissist in the same vein as Brando: a wounded child who manipulates others with aggressive and inappropriate behavior just to be reassured that he matters. It's evident in the way he handles his money: he'll throw away millions as long as it was his idea, but he'll fight you over a nickel if giving it to you feels to him like a personal surrender. Jitzu_the_Monk posted:One thing I like about the book is that Greg Sestero doesn't use the book to gloss over his own faults as he lays Tommy's bare. Oftentimes throughout the book Greg comes off as a self-absorbed jerk. Evil Mastermind posted:How in the holy hell did Wiseau not get lynched? I mean, seriously, he treated everyone (except Greg) like utter poo poo, to the point of making Juliette Danielle (Lisa) cry in front of everyone and refusing to pay the entire crew because they said mean things about him.
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# ? Apr 9, 2014 22:14 |
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Halloween Jack posted:It's very telling that he's fascinated with James Dean and Marlon Brando, the handsome young All-American filled to the brim with inner turmoil. I don't think Wiseau really wanted to be an actor, or even a star. It's just a typical American dream, one that a man could delude himself into thinking he can buy his way into...and Tommy is very rich and so terribly alienated and alone. I liked Sestero's observation (when Tommy has given him a copy of the script for The Room to review) about how Johnny probably reflects what Tommy thinks is the American Dream; a job in a bank where he makes them bundles but still passed over for promotions, spends all his free time tossing around a football, with a thoroughly unpleasant It's been a while since I read the book, but I actually wonder if Tommy's apparent aversion to French is why Lisa is never his "fiancée" in the film, but always his "fyoocha-wife".
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# ? Apr 10, 2014 09:05 |
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I just started reading this and I can't say I'm surprised that a guy who looks like a vampire happens to have a weird fixation on them. : "This park look like perfect place for vampire, I think vampire from Alcatraz live here." There's tons of great little details that just go by and are never dwelled on or mentioned again. Like Tommy's weird phobia of deer or how he just casually mentions that he has dreams where Greg kills him. Tommy's also even creepier in real life than he was in the movie. Especially that part where he meets Greg's mom, who tells him not to have sex with her son and he just laughs creepily and says "We all do." I'm not even sure what was going on with the "Somebody's chicken" scene but that was pretty weird.
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# ? Apr 11, 2014 01:42 |
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It all comes back to Rebel Without a Cause.
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# ? Apr 11, 2014 01:45 |
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I almost freaked out today on the bus from college. I looked out the window and saw a poster for a theater play with a black&white picture of a Wiseau-like figure sitting in the dark, holding a rose. For a second I was sure that he'd done it again, and now made a movie about Johnny's afterlife. Turns out it was just a oneman play by some argentinian actor with a...rather unfortunate resemblance to everyone's favorite romanian/french/belorussian/czech cipher. I'll take a picture later and post it here for appreciation.
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# ? Apr 11, 2014 22:11 |
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Celery Face posted:I just started reading this and I can't say I'm surprised that a guy who looks like a vampire happens to have a weird fixation on them. Lest we forget, the movie almost included Johnny's Flying Vampire Car.
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# ? Apr 25, 2014 01:09 |
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And so it finally begins. I think. http://thefilmstage.com/news/james-franco-to-play-tommy-wiseau-in-his-feature-about-the-making-of-the-room/ quote:Earlier this year the news dropped that James Franco would be directing and producing a film about the making of what many would say is the worst feature film ever made, Tommy Wiseau‘s The Room. Based on The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, detailing actor Greg Sestero‘s account on the production of the film, we wagered that Franco himself might take the role of the director, but nothing was confirmed, until now.
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# ? May 8, 2014 20:43 |
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Franco needs to do a quick youtube video of him in a black wig screaming "YOU'RE TEARING ME APAHT, LISA!!" immediately.
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