There have been some bad movies made throughout the history of film, such as Jurassic World and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom just to name a few. But none have been so brilliantly bad as Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 flick The Room, a masterpiece of “making-it-up-as-we-go-along” combined with the musings of what human life must be like through the eyes of an alien.
Putting aside the quality of the movie – which is objectively bad no matter how you spin it – the fact that The Room is still relevant 15 years after its initial release says a lot about just how memorable it is.
Since it’s clear that people just can’t get enough of The Room, Wiseau has striking while the iron is still hot and is now working on adapting his masterpiece into a Broadway musical.
In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Wiseau and his buddy Greg Sestero revealed that they’re working on bringing The Room to the Broadway stage. While the long-haired auteur kept relatively tight-lipped on the status of the project, he did say it will be “two years” away at least and that “one person” who is “very powerful” got in touch and is apparently keen to work with him.
But Wiseau isn’t stopping at just a Broadway musical. He says that after doing an adaptation of The Room, he’s thinking about doing another show about all the behind-the-scenes stuff, essentially turning Sestero’s book The Disaster Artist into a musical.
Given just how incomprehensible the original movie is, I can’t even imagine what the music for a hypothetical The Room musical would sound like. But according to Sestero, apparently the mega-talented musician Ben Folds already has an idea on how it will all turn out after having read The Disaster Artist and getting inspired to turn it into a musical.
That’s… actually quite promising because if there’s anyone who knows music and is able to make fun of anything while doing so (including himself), it’s Ben Folds.
Good god, this could actually happen and I’m actually super-stoked that it’s even a possibility at this point. Just imagine watching the entire flower shop scene reinterpreted for the stage or “oh hai, Mark” be turned into a show-stopping number.
I’m excited – and already cringing – at the thought of all this and I hope it all does happen.