Are we never going to find out how he got money for The Room

Underground leathers trade

>>82445921
Are we ever going to get a trailer of The Disaster Artist?

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did he intend for it to be a comedy?

>>82445921
>how he got money for The Room

how about you mind your own business? why do you care?

>>82445921
making and selling snuff porn

He had a sugarmommy and sold bootleg jeans

He is DB Cooper. He has already recorded a documentary admitting this that will be released when he dies.

>>82445921

HA! YOU SO FUNNY! I DO BUSINESS, YOU KNOW THIS! NOW COME ON, LET'S REHEARSED THIS SCENE AGAIN!

>>82446201
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>>82446151
>Mommy
Daddy, apparently everyone wanted that Neanderthal ass, in Europe and America

>>82446201
It doesn't line up, DB looked in his mid 40's in the 70's according to all witness's, so he'd be like 80 at least by now

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>>82445921
He had it stored for centuries.

People tell me I look like a tall version of Tommy Wiseau

feelsgood

>>82447949
Wiseau has the look of an ageless homunculus, so I'll buy it.

>>82445921


I will ask him tonight. He will be showing the room tonight in my town. Anything else to ask?

>>82446015
now its called the masterpiece and aparently they had to change a few things because tommy didnt like how intimate it got about his past

>>82445921

It's probably not a very good story. If you look at his history, he's a hard worker and an obsessive planner. Wherever he went, he did everything from washing dishes to selling knick knacks on the street to make a buck. He makes money, and then spends it on buying flawed jackets, jeans, and other stuff to sell to get even more money. At some point, he bought some real estate. And while he was doing all of this, and while he was apparently capable of coming up with the money for The Room, he was a 50 year old guy living with a roommate.

He basically hustles like a junkie looking for a fix. Waking up, looking at the world, trying to figure out how he can make a buck with no sense of shame. If junkies just stockpiled and reinvested money instead of blowing it on drugs, they'd have millions after a decade or two.

Or he borrowed it and doesn't want to admit it. The guy probably had good enough credit, and since he had real estate to splash the pot, he could get his hands on a good sized loan. Borrowing a few million and brushing away questions with bland statements about how you're just a really hard-working smart businessman seems pretty in character.

>>82450061
I'm more loloking forward to Room Full Of Spoons tbqh, seeing as it's outside Tommys control

>>82449601
Ask him when is he creating the thunder warriors.

>>82450158
Werent there mystery producers for the room that might have loaned him money?

>>82450663
kek

>>82445921
The guy is probably rich as fuck because of his family, that's why he keeps it a secret.
Watch born rich and tell me if some of the people featured in that documentary don't look as strange as this dude.

>>82445921
He sold knockoff clothes manufactured by Southeast Asian children to stores in San Francisco.

Tommy is a fucking scumbag, even if he is fascinating.

>>82451078
One of them was dead

>>82451078

Mystery producers like Bank of America and Wells Fargo. Of all the explanations, I find mysterious producers the least plausible explanation of them all. The idea that a weirdo like Tommy Wiseau could convince people to fund his movie anonymously is too much to take. He could probably leverage himself far enough with a bank or two to get his hands on the money.

After all, Kevin Smith financed most of Clerks with credit cards. He was up front about where he got the money, but he could have easily bullshitted everyone about how he made and saved $30,000 from speculating on comic book futures, and it's not like the credit card companies would correct the record.

>>82451259
THE PATRIOTS

>>82451370
>After all, Kevin Smith financed most of Clerks with credit cards
He said you still could do it this way. I doubt it though.

>>82451235
>Tommy is a fucking scumbag
you are lying, you are no good, you're just a chicken, cheep cheep cheep cheep cheeeiieeiiee

>>82451528

Really? I think it'd be way easier to do it now than back then. Like 90% of the expenses of making a movie like Clerks are eliminated with digital video. It cost over $3,000 just to get the negative. Even the black and white film costs almost $2,000. $7,000 on getting the sound mixed. Among a whole bunch of other stuff.

If Kevin Smith were making Clerks now, he could rent a cheap pro quality camera, edit it on his laptop, pay some Pro Tools guy to cobble together sound, and it would look and sound a whole lot better for 1/10 of the cost, at the most.

>>82451078
Apparently Chloe was some old lady bound to a wheelchair and the other guy may not have existed. Tommy called the shots.

>>82451822
Good points. I'm trying to think of a low budget movie that does something similar to this.

Pure Pwnage???

>>82451822
I think you're overestimating how that might look, Kickassia was made exactly like that and look at it

>>82451822
Man, it's posts like these that make me want to make a movie.

>>82451180
There's no way Tommy was born rich. The way he acts is textbook "new money." Plus, a lot of his habits, like being strangely cheap about small things, are pretty clear indicators he grew up poor.

>>82445921
he's the retarded cousin of some eastern euro crime syndicate

>>82452171
Douge Walker is a special kind of awful that few can match

>>82450158
>If you look at his history, he's a hard worker and an obsessive planner.
This. People want the story to be more interesting, but Tommy just worked his way up from selling bird toys, and had some help getting into real estate.

It's kind of weird to compare them, but Arnold Schwarzenegger basically did the same thing. He came to the US relatively broke, but with a job managing a gym, then he started his own businesses, got into real estate, and became a millionaire before even making a movie.

>>82446201
Came here to post this. Its really obvious.

>>82445921
big money whitewashing scheme

>>82452171

That made the fatal mistake of not knowing their limitations. It's kind of a Kevin Smith style thing, but the reason Clerks is just a bunch of static shots is practical more than anything else. He knew that with the lighting and set up that he had, a visually interesting film was out of the question. Just fix the lights, get the camera where it doesn't look like ass, and let the dialogue play out. You'll notice the rare times that Clerks does have camera action going on, like when they're in the car and it's swinging back and forth, or when they're on the roof playing hockey, it's almost unwatchably amateurish.

Digital video has made it so easy that people forget the fundamentals, like "don't film stuff that looks like ass." If you approach a project understanding the limitations of your equipment, and spend the time setting up the lighting, trying to make something that's easy to watch instead of something that's trying to look cool but ends up looking like an 8 year old shot it on VHS, with weird lighting changes and crappy camera movement.

>>82451822

Blue Ruin. Although the guy was already a kinotographer.

Are you excited for his new movie, /tv/?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZXdU3iuAyI

>>82453126
It unironically looks like kino

>>82450061
it's back to being called disaster artist tho.

>>82445921
He pimped Gregg out to lonely old women.

>>82453126
Is this actually a thing or just a fake trailer to generate hype for The disaster artist?

>>82455573
>tfw Tommy will never be your pimp

Gotta be insurance money from his car accident. Nothing else seems plausible. If he earned that money, even if it was some illegal trade or whatever, I can't believe he would spend it so stupidly. His spending seems in line with a lottery winner, instant sum of magic cash.

>>82457616
Yeah but seven mil for a car accident?

>>82446051
Of course not.

>>82450483
Has the Room ever made its money back?

He did mob work back in eastern Europe before moving to America to start a new life

>>82453241
>>82456061
It looks like they made a real fucking movie. Mark, I mean Greg, wrote it this time.

>>82458582
Probably not. Especially considering the advertising. But I seriously doubt Tommy cares.

>>82458707
He collected the majority of the money selling slaves from the Bosnian war.

He was known as the vampire of Sarajevo.

>>82459064
I was just thinking that the dvd and blu-ray sales and continued screenings and airing on tv might be able to eat away at that 6 million budget over time.

READ THE FUCKING BOOK. He owns several clothing stores in San Fran. The clothing stores sell brand name clothes with minor faults that makes the clothing companies turn them down, such as missing belt loops, dodgy seams etc. He purchases those for cheap and then sells them at a price that is a bargain compared to the prices of the non-faulty brand name clothes. He also rents spaces for businesses in the buildings he owns

>>82455573
>>82456895
>"Tommy, I don't really think this is a good idea."
>"Oh cohm ohn Greg. You get the sex and you get paid for it. I'd love to get paid for sehx hahh hahh"

>>82459064
This, The room was a vanity project that accidentally brought him worldwide fame.

He is still a property magnate so all is well.

>>82453126
Its directed by some other guy called Gary Fong, so its not a true Wiseau movie

>>82459843
>might be able to eat away at that 6 million budget over time.
Maybe, but the movie is still a pretty small cult thing, and 6 million dollars is a ton of money. And that was just for the production; just his years-long rental of the famous Room billboard would have added a few more million to that.

I'm sure some of the budget has been earned back, but probably not all of it. Either way, it wouldn't matter to Tommy, because he's still loaded.

>>82460258
It's also speculated he got a large amount of money from a lawsuit after he was in an accident

>>82461049
I thought the 300K for the sign was included as advertising in the 6 million.

However he got it, most of the crew must have assumed it was mob money or something. Interesting that you can get a whole crew to work in Hollywood for many months on a film when they think it's dirty money and no hope of making anything worth putting their names on. He must have paid them pretty decently. Does anyone know how much Greg Sestero got? I don't think he says the number in his book.

>>82451528
>>82451822
Joe Swanberg financed most of his movies with credit cards. He was in huge debt (including student loans) up until 2013 or so when he released Drinking Buddies.

>>82452808
Blue Ruin had a Kickstarter campaign.

Negotiable American Currency

>>82461282
>Does anyone know how much Greg Sestero got? I don't think he says the number in his book.
No, he just says it was a ridiculous amount that he couldn't turn down. Even his girlfriend, who hated Tommy told him to take the job. So it was at least more than he was making as a manager at a clothes store. And that was to be a line producer, so must have gotten a pay increase to be Mark.

>>82461282
im pretty sure the entire crew had to be replaced like twice