Think the last update, which said it wasn't ready to be screened, was Sept. 2019. Hopefully they finished shooting before the pandemic. Have a feeling they didn't. And like Applerill said, there's always a chance it won't come out at all.
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It's gonna be a 10/10
It could be bad-great, or it could just be bad-bad. When an outsider artist -- for purposes of this discussion, I'm calling Wiseau an outsider writer-director-actor -- is aware that his work is beloved because it's bad, can he repeat the success? If he deliberately sets out to make a bad movie -- assuming he does -- instead of making a bad one thinking he's making a good one, does the self-awareness make it bad-bad instead of bad-good?
William Hung's American Idol audition was hilarious, though uncomfortable because he seemed like he might be mentally challenged to some degree. When he performed on the season finale in a ruffled shirt with professional stage lighting, the magic was gone, because he sang better -- it was still bad, but not bad enough to be funny anymore.
The trailer's not that funny and the scenes seem more professional, so maybe the Hung example's apropos.
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It could be bad-great, or it could just be bad-bad. When an outsider artist -- for purposes of this discussion, I'm calling Wiseau an outsider writer-director-actor -- is aware that his work is beloved because it's bad, can he repeat the success? If he deliberately sets out to make a bad movie -- assuming he does -- instead of making a bad one thinking he's making a good one, does the self-awareness make it bad-bad instead of bad-good?
That’s true, but Wiseau is such a uniquely absurd character that even a “bad bad” movie by him seems like a lot of fun. _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
When I think about it, I guess I’m more of a Wiseau completist than most people, as I found his The Neighbors series amusing enough (I still think about the scene where they pass around a $20 bill across the room through a chain of people who owe each other), and while I remember very little of it, the “competent” filmmaking of Best Friends Volume 1 actually made The ridiculous plot twists way more viscerally astounding when I saw it at the Music Box a couple years ago. So I still have hope that, if this comes out at all, it’ll be a pretty pleasant surprise.
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