Franco + Rogen's 'The Disaster Artist' Has Its Writers
The building blocks are in place to revisit 'The Room'
The men behind the scripts of beloved indie flick (500) Days Of Summer and recent young-adult hit The Fault In Our Stars have been revealed as the people to pen Seth Rogen's forthcoming adaptation of Greg Sestero's book, The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, The Best Worst Movie Ever Made.
Screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber have been given the go-ahead to adapt Sestero's book, which provides a firsthand account of the experience inflicted upon those working, alongside enigmatic beautiful failure Tommy Wiseau, on comically bad cinema classic The Room.
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The scribes individually confirmed the news on Twitter late last night and early this morning (AEST), with Rogen further confirming the news on his feed.
Worst case scenario: we make the 2nd worst movie of all time. http://t.co/qhigDhRfST cc @iamthepuma @Sethrogen @evandgoldberg @JamesFrancoTV
— Michael H. Weber (@thisisweber) September 8, 2014
All the best movies are about flawed people. In tuxes with footballs. #disasterartist @thisisweber @Sethrogen @evandgoldberg @JamesFrancoTV
— scott neustadter (@iamthepuma) September 8, 2014
Long-time Rogen-buddy James Franco is on-board to star as the mysteriously well-funded Wiseau, with his real-life sibling Dave Franco lined up to step into Sestero's boots.
Aside from simply rehashing the borderline-unbelievable high jinks that went down during the filming of The Room, The Disaster Artist takes a poignant, revealing look at the budding friendship between Wiseau and Sestero, and the latter's fascination with the former's unfailingly optimistic belief in his own incredibly limited abilities, as Wiseau's desire to realise his dream at all costs masks The Room's ultimate fate as a failure, recasting it in the history books as almost a success.
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