Everyone Get Excited, James Franco's Making a Movie About The Room!

Exclamation points are usually a bad idea when writing because they often convey too much enthusiasm. However, after reading that James and Dave Franco are set to direct and star in The Disaster Artist a.k.a. a movie behind the making of The Room, exclamation points seem more than warranted.

A film about the "Citizen Kane of bad movies" is long overdue, and James Franco seems like the perfect combination of consummate and weird to make it work. Production is still in its early stages. Only Dave Franco has been cast as Mark, the film's protagonist.

Franco's real challenge will be casting one of the strangest people in the history of show business, Tommy Wiseau. Wiseau, if you don't know, is the man entirely responsible for The Room. He wrote, directly, produced, edited and, of course, starred in the movie. There are few actors with the combination of skills and physical appearance to capture Tommy's alien qualities. Whoever takes on this role, despite not being the protagonist, will shoulder much of the burden of the overall quality of the film. Let's hope the Franco brothers are up to the task.

You should rewatch The Room to brush up on your knowledge or at least read my article. Until then, I'll just leave this here.