The Room’s Tommy Wiseau returns with new bad movie Big Shark

Since the late 2000s, Tommy Wiseau’s misbegotten feature film The RoomThe film has maintained a special place among cult movie fans as an interactive theatre experience for the masses, a nighttime flick, and conversation starter. The film’s sheer extremity — its comical line readings, its baffling plot, its off-putting sex scenes — propelled it to such infamy that the story behind its creation eventually became an Oscar-nominated movie, and one of the best films of 2017. Wiseau has spent a surprisingly large percentage of the last 15 years or so on tour behind the movie’s many ironic public screenings, in between creating a TV series, appearing in guest spots on television and in films, and pursuing various minor projects, from music videos to making a short about homelessness in America.

But he never made a second movie — until now. It seems that he has made at least one movie. His upcoming movie trailer Big Shark It made its online debut on Thursday. Zimmer screenings. The thing is, the trailer is roughly 50 percent movie trailer and 50 percent stylized, black-and-white ad for the (very real) Tommy Wiseau underwear line TW Underwear — or, as the logo appears to call it, TWUNDERWEAR.

The movie’s logline, according to the film’s YouTube listing: “Three firefighters /George, Patrick & Tim) must save New Orleans from a gigantic shark. Can New Orleans survive?” That doesn’t necessarily explain why half the movie-trailer part of the trailer is focused on boxing, with nary a fire in sight, much less anyone fighting it. The boxers are also apparently named Jimmy and Tommy, which suggests they aren’t even the subjects of the movie. Also, there’s a big CGI shark slapped in the middle of it all, launching into the middle of the city streets in what looks like a lost scene from Sharknado.

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And then the whole thing suddenly cuts to a TWUNDERWEAR ad, featuring various shirtless men tossing a basketball around in slow motion, as Wiseau himself, in a particularly strange Andy Warhol-style wig, arrives to repeat “love is blind.” What does love have to do with men’s underwear, slo-mo basketball, or giant sharks threatening New Orleans? Might as well ask why there’s spoon art on a random wall in The Room, or why Philip Haldiman’s character Denny graphically eats an apple in the movie. Tommy Wiseau logic can explain some things.

It’s going to take audiences a while to find out how it all fits together, whether Big Shark features more graphically veiny shots of Wiseau’s bared and flexing buttocks, and whether Big Shark It is going to be a household name. ZimmerInteractive, high-quality viewing experience. Variety reports that the film will be shown in Portland on April 2nd. Then, it will go on an eight-month tour across the United States, stopping at each city one by one.