Still, every cloud has a silver lining. Wiseau’s brainchild (he wrote, directed, produced and starred in The Room) received so much negative publicity it ended up attracting a cult following, who celebrate it at late-night screenings around the world, and turned its creator into an underground star. A kind of bizarro Orson Welles, if you will, in that The Room has been described as “the Citizen Kane of bad movies”. But now with The Disaster Artist, Wiseau is very much in the mainstream.

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