The Disaster Artist trailer: James Franco's Tommy Wiseau perfectly recreates all your favourite scenes from The Room
'You're tearing me apart, Lisa!'
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Indeed, James Franco's The Disaster Artist has premiered at TIFF to rapturous praise from critics, after a similarly enthusiastically received work in progress screening at South by Southwest. Unsurprisingly, the awards talk has already begun.
The film adapts the book of the same name by actor Greg Sestero, who played (Oh hi) Mark in the cult hit and infamously terrible The Room; his own, honest account of how he first met its director Tommy Wiseau and the strange, unsettling friendship that grew out of it.
James Franco both directs and stars as Wiseau here, throwing his everything into the man's unplaceable accent and untraceable logic.
His brother Dave stars as Sestero; Josh Hutcherson plays Philip Haldiman (who played Denny), Ari Graynor plays Juliette Danielle (who played Lisa), and Zac Efron plays Dan Janjigian (who played Chris-R).
A UK release date for The Disaster Artist is yet to be announced.
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