Wiseau has threatened the festival with legal action before its proposed screening of Room Full of Spoons, Rick Harper’s investigation into Wiseau and the cult following behind his 2003 film, The Room.
Screenings of Room Full of Spoons will be replaced by what the festival calls “Wiseau-sanctioned” screenings of The Room itself.
The director of the Sydney Underground film festival, Stephen Popescu, says the legal threats hit them from left-field.
Tommy Wiseau, the director of the film once called “the Citizen Kane of bad movies”, has forced the Sydney Underground film festival to an unexpected milestone: its first ever cancelled screening.