The Fault in Our Stars writers to pen James Franco’s Tommy Wiseau movie

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

The Wrap is reporting THE FAULT IN OUR STARS writers Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber have been hired to adapt the Greg Sestero book The Disaster Artist. James Franco will direct the film, and also star as THE ROOM writer/director Tommy Wiseau. Sestero's book is about his involvement with the "greatest bad movie ever made," and he'll be played by Dave Franco.

Book synopsis from Amazon:

In 2003, an independent film called The Room—starring and written, produced, and directed by a mysteriously wealthy social misfit named Tommy Wiseau—made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles. Described by one reviewer as “like getting stabbed in the head,” the $6 million film earned a grand total of $1,800 at the box office and closed after two weeks. Ten years later, it’s an international cult phenomenon, whose legions of fans attend screenings featuring costumes, audience rituals, merchandising, and thousands of plastic spoons. Hailed by The Huffington Post as “possibly the most important piece of literature ever printed,” The Disaster Artist is the hilarious, behind-the-scenes story of a deliciously awful cinematic phenomenon as well as the story of an odd and inspiring Hollywood friendship. Greg Sestero, Tommy’s costar, recounts the film’s bizarre journey to infamy, explaining how the movie’s many nonsensical scenes and bits of dialogue came to be and unraveling the mystery of Tommy Wiseau himself.

THE DISASTER ARTIST has the potential to be a fun and odd little movie, but I haven't been impressed with most of James Franco's work as a director. Still, I doubt THE DISASTER ARTIST will end up being worse than Tommy Wiseau's THE ROOM, and maybe it'll be a little less pretentious compared to previous Franco directed films.