The Room (2023)

[Dwight Fry]

O hai, fanedit dot org! I have something for youuuu...

Nothing is sacred. The one and only "Citizen Kane of Bad Movies", Tommy Wiseau's magnum opus The Room, is being remade. I'm fed up with this wahrld!

Yup, for real. The remake is happening to raise funds for amfAR, the AIDS Research Foundation, and despite the original's memetic status, reportedly it's being played completely straight and earnest.

And who's playing Johnny, the role made (in)famous by Wiseau? Wait for it: Bob Odenkirk. Yes, Saul Goodman himself! That's quite the upgrade indeed. Greg Sestero, the original Mark, is also in it, but this time around he's playing Chris-R, the one-scene-wonder drug dealer.

To be honest, I don't know what to make of this. My best guess is that it'll be something akin to Bobson Dugnutt's remake of Back to the Future: The Reality Cut. As in, about every aspect of it will be objectively greatly improved, but since the charm of the original is exactly how unspeakably awful it is, won't it stop working, and if so, what is the point really? (Cinematically speaking that is; the charity effort is of course admirable).

Further info: https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/n...-starring-bob-odenkirk-gets-first-look-photos

 

[Dwight Fry]

A first look at Odenkirk's version of "I did not hit her" has been revealed!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1634834173998546944

 

[matrixgrindhouse]

When all's said and done, someone needs to make a "multiverse cut" of The Room, alternating between the original, the remake, and the reshot scenes from The Disaster Artist.

 

[Dwight Fry]

When all's said and done, someone needs to make a "multiverse cut" of The Room, alternating between the original, the remake, and the reshot scenes from The Disaster Artist.

Steven Soderbergh's Rooms!

EDIT: Actually... that has a lot of fanmix possibilities. Using James Franco for the behind the scenes stuff, then using Bob Odenkirk for the performance Wiseau thinks he's giving, and Wiseau himself for the performance he's actually giving.

 

[matrixgrindhouse]

Steven Soderbergh's Rooms!

EDIT: Actually... that has a lot of fanmix possibilities. Using James Franco for the behind the scenes stuff, then using Bob Odenkirk for the performance Wiseau thinks he's giving, and Wiseau himself for the performance he's actually giving.

To say nothing of the fact that Odenkirk has a small role in Disaster Artist, as Franco-Wiseau's acting coach. In his mind's eye, he could see himself taking form as his teacher. Work in the post-credit cameo by the real Wiseau and you have... something?

 

[ParanoidAndroid]

When all's said and done, someone needs to make a "multiverse cut" of The Room, alternating between the original, the remake, and the reshot scenes from The Disaster Artist.

The Roomiverse?

 

[Dwight Fry]

Further info on the cast: Bella Heathcote will be playing Lisa. Mark will be the remake's director Brando Crawford. Filmmaker Mike Flanagan (Midnight Mass) will be Peter (the lawyer character who disappears mid-movie without any logic), and Flanagan's wife actress Kate Siegel will also be in it, I've seen mentioned out there that as Claudette (Lisa's mom) but since she's only five years older than Heathcote my guess is that she'll be playing Michelle instead.

 

[matrixgrindhouse]

Another idea for the edit: Both Wiseau and Odenkirk were interviewed on Space Ghost Coast to Coast. It wouldn't be too difficult to swap the footage around, making the segments only slightly less coherent.