The Disaster Artist 2017

       This film is based on a non-fiction book written by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell.  It's also a remake of The Room film.  The book chronicles the making of Tommy Wiseasu’s film The Room from 2003.  It’s considered to be one of the worst films ever made.  Greg Sestero wants to be an actor.  He moves away from home after he meets Tommy Wiseau.  They are going to Hollywood together to be actors and become famous.  Both Greg and Tommy are not having any luck breaking into the movie business.  Tommy decides to write, direct, produce and star in his own movie along with Greg.  The movie is titled The Room and it reaches cult status as the Citizen Kane of bad movies.  No one knows how Tommy made his money or how old he really is?

     I had never heard of the film The Room?  Also, I didn’t know this film was a remake.  This film is terrible!!  I can see that the original film could be bad but I wonder if it could be worse than this film?  There are scenes at the end showing sections of the first film and the second film side by side.  They are identical except for the actors.  I could not finish watching these scenes!!!  I had seen enough and couldn’t take one more scene, especially doubled!!  I watched this film because the ratings were good???  1* (I hated this movie)

104 min, Bio directed by James Franco with James Franco, Dave Franco, Ari Graynor, Alison Brie, Jacki Weaver, Paul Scheer, Zac Efron, Josh Hutcherson, June Diane Raphael, Megan Mullally, Jason Mantzoukas, Andrew Santino, Nathan Fielder.

Note:  Imdb 7.5 of 10, 91% critic 87% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 2*, Amazon 4.1* of 5* with 340 reviews, Rolling Stone 3 ½* of 4*, Metacritic 76 of 100 with 44 critics 7.6 out of 10 with 290 reviews.

Special Note:  Filmed in Los Angeles, North Hollywood and Soho, London, England, UK.  Tommy Wiseau stated that the only two actors to play him in this adaptation would be James Franco or Johnny Depp.  Wiseau was a fan of Franco’s performance in Sonny of 2002.  Wiseau and Sestero gave their approval to cast Dave Franco as Sestero.  Seth Rogen and Johan Hill were early devoted fans of the Wiseau film.  Hill saw Wiseau at a grocery store in LA and he secretly took a photo because he was so star-struck.