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Here's hoping he had access to a lot of behind the scenes stills.
Also, I'm still waiting for the book about the differences of shooting film vs. digital promised a long time ago by Wiseau.

I finally got around to reading The Disaster Artist.

Some amusing bits (there's more but I focused it on the filming aspect) :

- Tommy routinely asks for a glass of hot water to drink at restaurants
- When Greg Sestero's mother met Wiseau, she - in not as many words, told Tommy not to have sex with her son.
- Wiseau called for all cast and crew to arrive on set promptly at 8am -- he showed up around noon
- Wiseau had a college kid filming "the making of The Room" on set. It served as a means for TW to find out what others said about him behind his back.
- TW had a $6,000 private bathroom built for himself...........8 feet from the regular bathrooms.
- Exploded at crew members that farted
- On the the 1-year anniversary of 911 he called the entire crew into a meeting room for 5 minutes of silence---with a set 5 minute timer. TW reset the timer because someone started laughing.
- When Tommy was told something wasn't possible he said "You work for Hitchcock and tell him that he fire you!"
- "You are tearing me apart, Lisa!" was originally scripted with "taking" instead of "tearing".
-Brought his $250,000 HD camera home with each night because he was afraid of "thieves".

Tommy filming in 35mm and HD:

The hot water thing isn't that weird. My mother does it every time.

It's really common in Asia, particularly China. Traditional Chinese medicine stresses a balance between hot/cold food and drink, and cold water is thought to be very bad for you, particularly women. Logically, it makes sense that some physician 1,000 years ago figured out that boiled water is a whole lot less likely to give you dysentery than water fresh from the river, but modern interpretations offer up a whole slew of odd defenses.

I don't how far the practice goes outside of Asia though. Maybe Wiseau's secretly Chinese, or imported some mail-order Asian bride that stilted him but he just can't give up drinking water like she did.

Or maybe he just prefers the taste/ texture/ whatever of hot water over cold.

I'm think drinking hot water at meals was practiced by some in ancient Rome (which means they may have gotten it from the Greeks who may have gotten it from ancient Egypt). I recall it being referenced in a few texts. I have a few of the texts still so I may look it up.

In the United States, it is typically only ordered by old ladies who either want to drink actual hot water, or are too cheap to pay for tea, and have brough their own teabag from home.

My father-in-law puts ice cubes in his cereal. That certainly isn't normal, is it?

Warren Oates. :-"

domino harvey wrote:You've seen the trailer, now watch almost seven minutes of crisp footage from Wiseau's legendary follow-up project, the Neighbors

This is still apparently happening. And I couldn't be happier

I've actually seen the pilot episode a couple years ago. It is unsurprisingly terrible, but surprisingly boring and uninteresting. Unless he went back and reshot it all. That underwear scene was not in the original.

The Room receives a porn parody treatment. Finally.

EDIT: Surprisingly, this is actually funny

His next film should be called The 12 Johns.

I think Mr.Quijote read somewhere that a great director also has to be a degenerate. He's playing a role.

The Neighbors: now with superimposed abs and sound effects.

Misunderstood the genius behind either The Room or The Neighbors? Shame on you.

The Disaster Artist:

Franco as Wiseau:


Zac Efron (as Chris R.) and Josh Hutcherson (Denny):

Wiseau has been uploading 4K clips of The Room to his youtube channel. Looks like he'll probably do a 4K tour of the film and another blu-ray release. He'll live off this thing forever.

ShellOilJunior wrote:Wiseau has been uploading 4K clips of The Room to his youtube channel. Looks like he'll probably do a 4K tour of the film and another blu-ray release. He'll live off this thing forever.

Future Criterion-like notes concerning a Blu re-issue (perhaps even a 4KBlu release):

"This presentation was the result of a dual transfer of the original 35mm negative and HD negative, filmed simultaneously during production per director's wishes. The film negative was scanned at 2k and then again at 4k with multiple restoration pass done at 2k. The HD files were transferred as is with more restoration work done at 2k. This process was supervised and approved by Tommy Wiseau."

Tommy Wiseau's future response to all the doubters - and therefore "haters" - concerning the new 4k look:

"Not done at 4k? Shame on you. Not high quality presentation? Shame on you."

Wiseau & Sestero are reuniting to star in the film Best F(r)iends, written by Sestero.

Not directed by Tommy Wiseau though