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You’re tearing us apart, Franco!
James Franco is an eccentric artist by Hollywood standards. But the 37-year-old actor/director/writer’s long list of unusual art projects and films seems like a stack of paint-by-numbers canvases compared to the bizarre and so-bad-they’re-good films of The Room author Tommy Wiseau. However, Franco will get the chance to reach Wiseau level as he will play the mysterious director in The Disaster Artistthe cinematic adaptation of the book about the filming of Wiseau’s insane cult film of 2003, a romantic drama that was once set in a Weekly entertainment Function as “the Citizen Kane of bad films.”
As you can see from the photo Franco posted on Instagram yesterday (above), he’s already having a lot of fun in the role. “THE DISASTER ARTIST: The making of THE ROOM. It has begun!!!!!” he wrote in the caption.
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Just look at that flowing black hair! What a commitment! He looks quite similar to the real Wiseau (minus the sunglasses) seen in the photo below:
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Franco is also directing the project and cast his brother Dave Franco – also pictured with a fabulous hairstyle – as Greg Sestero, an actor who The Disaster Artist Book after he had become friends with Wiseau and in The room. Seth Rogen, the producer The Disaster Artistwill also be seen in the film, as well as Hunger Games with Josh Hutcherson as the star.
The Disaster Artist has also recently added several additional co-stars, including Jacki Weaver, Ari Graynor, Hannibal Buress and Kate Upton.
The cinema adaptation of The Disaster Artist was written by Michael H. Weber and Scott Neustadter, the screenwriters of (500) days of summer, The Spectacular Nowand John Green adaptations Fate is a lousy traitor And Paper cities.
