A Remake Of 'The Room' Is Coming With Bob Odenkirk As Tommy Wiseau After 20 Years Since The Infamously Horrible Film First Debuted
It's been 20 years since the legendarily terrible film The Room blessed the world with its stilted dialogue, bizarre shot compositions and Tommy Wiseau, and in celebration, the world will get the chance to see it remade — apparently line-for-line and shot-for-shot with Better Call Saul's Bob Odenkirk as the main character Johnny.
Odenkirk confirmed the project in a Twitter post yesterday morning after Slash Film reported the project was in development.
The project is connected to Acting for a Cause, an organization that puts together staged readings for charity. The upcoming Room remake will benefit amfAR, an AIDS research foundation.
Acting for a Cause director Brando Crawford posted a still from the project in a February Instagram post that shows Odenkirk as Wiseau and himself as the character Mark, dutifully holding a football.
Though Odenkirk is currently best known for his dramatic chops showcased in the Breaking Bad universe, he is no stranger to bizarre comedy, being a frequent collaborator with Tim and Eric and nailing one of the most memorable sketches from I Think You Should Leave.
His Wiseau follows James Franco's, who portrayed the enigmatic filmmaker in A24's The Disaster Artist back in 2017.
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CatsGoneWildVol4
Hollywood remakes!
"Because original ideas are hard! :("
Neoontime
Every attempt to recreate the magic is less funnier than the last iteration. It was lightning in a bottle and becoming a dead horse at this point.
baldarek
Your Uncle Yonkers
Um…ok cool
Kind of defeats the entire point of why that movie is notable. Theres tons of bad movies with bad sets, acting, writing, ect. The Room isn't The Room without Tommy. The story of how the movie was made and the context of the writer director stars massive ego leading the project are what makes it interesting.
If they go out of their way to recreate the badness then its vapid and pointless.
Like how people can perfectly replicate the Mona Lisa but no one would give a shit because the Mona Lisa is famous for the story.
If they remake it in the context of making it good, as in more professional with Hollywood actors good sets, better lighting, as in making the movie Tommy saw in his head, thats kind of funny but Idk if id watch an hour long movie of that.
Like taking a child's stick figure drawing and giving it to a master painter to make an objectively better piece of art
Timstuff
I'm glad to hear this is being done for a charitable cause and that they're not just trying to cash in on The Room's infamy.