10 Movies Made Under INSANE Conditions
5. It Was Filmed In Two Formats At The Same Time... For Some Reason - The Room
Much has been written about the utterly chaotic production of Tommy Wiseau's "disasterpiece" The Room, but the eccentric stories of the shoot often overlook one uniquely ridiculous fact - Wiseau shot the movie twice, and he did it at the same time.
Wiseau loved the idea of being the first filmmaker in history to shoot a movie on two formats at once, and so at enormous personal cost, he filmed the entirety of The Room with both a 35mm film camera and HD video camera simultaneously.
To pull this off, the cameras were housed side-by-side with custom rigging which required two cameras crews to operate, allowing him to end up with two versions of the movie at the end.
Ultimately only the 35mm version has ever seen the light of day, which just makes Wiseau's decision - which incurred not only huge financial costs but made the shoot more time-consuming - that much more bizarre. It is nothing if not totally on-brand for the man, at least.