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Franco, who also stars as the eccentric,
strangely accented Wiseau in "The Disaster Artist," said he
believed the film conveyed Wiseau's passion for the medium,
despite "The Room" being critically panned.
"He is an artist in that sense, so ('The Room') is a disaster
and it's a piece of art," Franco said in an interview at
Sunday's premiere of "The Disaster Artist" at the American Film
Institute (AFI) festival in Los Angeles.
Franco recruited his brother Dave Franco to star as Wiseau's
co-star and friend Greg Sestero, who co-wrote the book "The
Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, The Greatest Bad Movie
Ever Made," which Franco's film is based on.
"We never wanted to make fun of 'The Room' or Tommy Wiseau,"
said Dave Franco.
"On the contrary, we wanted to celebrate Tommy and we wanted to
celebrate this movie and celebrate people who have dreams and
don't take no for an answer," he added.
In "The Disaster Artist," rolling out in U.S. theaters from Dec.
1, Wiseau and Sestero become disillusioned with Hollywood and
decide to make their own film, which Wiseau funded, directed and
starred in.
The film shows that even now, nobody knows Wiseau's age, where
he is originally from and how he had $6 million to create the
"worst film ever made."
"People would make fun of 'The Room' but 15 years later it's
still selling out cinemas across the world," Sestero said.
"At this point, how can you call it the worst movie? It's a
success, you know."
(Reporting by Rollo Ross for Reuters TV; Editing by Piya Sinha-Roy
and Richard Chang)
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