The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

(This review was originally written for and posted at the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography's site. The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell is a recounting of the making of Tommy Wiseau's bizarre-yet-strangely-compelling boondoggle The Room. Sep 30, 2013 - The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made offers two intersecting stories of Hollywood dreaming: Sestero and Wiseau met in acting class years before The Room was even written. Dec 30, 2013 - The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made. The Biggest Happenings in Comedy Right Now 5/17/14. Nov 21, 2013 - The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made. Feb 10, 2014 - The Room became an instant classic in our circle (turns out, you don't need an entire theater of fans to make a so-bad-it's-good screening work you just need Malibu rum and wise cracks), and when we found out that the Deadline Hollywood reports that Franco's production company, Rabbit Bandini Productions, has bought the rights to Sestero's 2013 book, “The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room,” which he co-authored with journalist Tom Bissell late last year. Book and life rights to The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, which was published last year, from actor Greg Sestero (who played Mark in the movie, and was a longtime friend of Wiseau's) and journalist Tom Bissell. Mar 26, 2014 - It gathered enough of an audience to make it feasible for co-star Greg Sestero to publish his memoirs of the experience, entitled The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made. Feb 8, 2014 - Written, directed, and starring Tommy Wiseau, The Room is easily one of the worst movies ever made, and also one of the most enjoyable, if you're watching it with a group of friends. Greg Sestero, Tom you may ask as a virgin of the film your friends hound you to see, claiming it to be the worst movie ever. Feb 10, 2014 - According to Deadline, Franco has acquired the rights to the behind-the-scenes memoir The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, co-written by Greg Sestero (who played Mark in the film) and journalist Tom Bissell. With its bizarre dialogue, plethora of red herrings and plotholes and — most crucially — Wiseau's hilariously magnetic lead performance, The Room has gained a reputation as the worst (and, to some, most amazing) film ever made. May 16, 2014 - On one level, anyone who's ever tried to express themselves in art may be provoked to empathy by the gulf between Wiseau's aspirations and The Room's accomplishments, a gulf made more poignant by the film's camp cult success, Wiseau's continuing and active In this sense it's very different to Best Worst Movie, the documentary film about the similarly cultish Troll 2 (merely the IMDB's 93rd lowest rated film at the time of writing).