![]() ![]() What fun there is in “The Disaster Artist” comes primarily from James Franco’s version of Wiseau, the enigma of probable Polish extraction. Dave Franco, brother of James, plays Greg, the un-enigmatic opposite of Tommy. If you’ve seen “The Room” (and, yes, you should), part of the payoff of Franco’s film comes in the re-creations of scenes from the source. Weber takes its cues from the book “The Disaster Artist,” which Sestero co-wrote with Tom Bissell. The script by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. And now director James Franco has made “The Disaster Artist,” a movie about the making of a flop/hit and a genial if strangely mild ode to dreamers and strivers everywhere. ![]() Word got around that Wiseau’s travesty, as poorly written as it was poorly made and poorly acted, had the special sauce of a memorable bad movie. “The Room,” made in earnest but received in jest, turned into a midnight-movie hit. ![]()
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