10 Unbelievable Behind-The-Scenes Stories About The Room

10. It's Based On A 500 Page Book

If you want more Room, then don’t worry, there is plenty of it out there.

The Room’s mad-scientist creator, Tommy Wiseau, is an interesting man. This is as much of an understatement as saying that he is a good actor, a good director or a good dresser.

As you will find out over the course of this list, Wiseau did some very odd things during the making of The Room, but even before the movie was made, it’s clear that he was also making some very bizarre decisions.

After arriving in America from wherever (nobody knows for sure) in some year (again, no one is entirely sure), Wiseau first began work on The Room in 2001. Originally, the story was a stage play, set in a single room (do you get it?), but Wiseau decided that he wanted to take his creation to the next level.

Wiseau adapted his play into a book that was, according to Wiseau himself in a 2009 interview, over 500 pages long.

Rather unsurprisingly, Wiseau says that he is still waiting for someone to publish the book. He claims that one company did agree to publish it, but only if he shortened the book to 300 pages. Obviously, Wiseau subscribes to the J.R.R. Tolkien school of thought that more pages is better, because he refused.

Maybe one day this book will see the light of day and, if it does, you be sure it will top the bestsellers lists all over the world.