(If you're not familiar with The Amazing Cult Phenomenon That Is The Room, please read up on it and watch clips here. You will thank me, I promise.)
In the past week, I've shown The Room to three separate friends at three separate home screenings. I would normally be a little Roomed-out from that, but I will never get tired of the looks of wonder, discovery, awe, and ecstatic amusement on the cute little faces of my friends as they experience The Room for the very first time. In that way, owning a copy of The Room is exactly like being a kindergarten teacher, but with (slightly) fewer pee-pants incidents. After showing The Room to one friend, we came to the conclusion that a major studio needs to hire director Tommy Wiseau to write, produce, cast, star in, and direct a big-budget feature (Dark Knight sequel, maybe), and that the final product would go down in film history. This is not a joke: this is a really really really good idea (Brian Grazer's assistant, if you're checking his Google alerts, please pass this idea on.) But so far, despite Entertainment Weekly's recent discovery of The Room, nobody in Holllywood has come through with this Best Idea For A Movie Ever, so instead, Tommy's next project is a sitcom called Neighbors, and here is the unbelievable trailer.
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Here's the plot synopsis (all sic, of course):
The lead character is Charlie, the manager of the building. The tenants are a diverse group of presonality of different ages and backgrounds constantly bringing their problems to Charlie and his secretary girlfiend Bebe. The character of Princess Penelope create commotion by seeing the ghost of her uncle Prince Charles. It is a fresh humorous look at human behavioe with different view points including plenty of surprises. The demographic is all inclusive.
I don't know, either, but it is real. Please please please, someone put this show on TV. (Eternal gratitude to Russell for the tip!)
