New Disaster Artist trailer explores Tommy Wiseau’s strange life
James Franco’s hilarious looking new comedy The Disaster Artist will go behind the scenes of Tommy Wiseau’s gloriously terrible The Room, but the new trailer shows it’ll also give us a glimpse into Wiseau’s mysterious life off screen
Previous trailers and early reviews have suggested James Franco’s The Disaster Artist – a behind the scenes look at the making of The Room, often dubbed 'the Citizen Kane of bad movies' – will be one of the funniest films of the year. The latest promo for the comedy, out 1 December in the UK, suggests that The Disaster Artist will also give us a glimpse into Wiseau’s mysterious life.
In the new trailer, we see Tommy Wiseau attending acting class and a spectacularly bad audition in which the casting director questions his nationality. “Am I hearing an accent?” she asks. “No, no, what do you mean?” replies an incredulous Wiseau. We also see the actor-director fibbing about his age – in real life he claims to be decades younger than he is.
Instead of simply being a laugh-riot satire, these new clips let us see a more human side to Wiseau’s outlandish persona, as well as the spiky relationship he has with his best friend and Room co-star Greg Sestero, who is played in the film by Franco’s younger brother, Dave, and on whose tell-all book the film is based.
As well as the Franco brothers, the film also features Seth Rogen, Alison Brie and Zac Efron.
The Disaster Artist is released 1 Dec by Warner Bros; take a look at the trailer in the player above or on YouTube here.