The Room director and star of upcoming game series The Tommy Wi-Show, Tommy Wiseau, has stated that he'd "absolutely" like to direct a film based on a videogame property. During our exclusive interview with him on Podtoid, he applauded the technical achievements of games, and their value as artistic properties.
"Sure, this is the thing, you have to be open-minded. Entertainment's changing, constantly," he told us. "As you guys know ... from 35, to HD, to 'Super-HD' [as] I'm calling it right now. Yes, absolutely you can create a movie based on a game, based on the animation, I mean you can go [to] infinity. You have to be open-minded. Absolutely, the answer's yes, sure."
Tommy seems to have a genuine respect for gaming, stating it's "not just violence" and that it provides much needed "excitement" to the human brain. He is also very excited about gaming's educational value and stating that, "Everyone should play a game."
Check out Podtoid for our full interview with the man himself!
Contest:
12:15 PM on 09.22.2011 | 
Because yesterday was your first day on the internet?
Pretty sure you just called it a game three times, Tommy. I love you.
Are the failures really who we'll remember?
No. Not at all ever.
Adam Jensen is a loveable guy. He works hard at Sarif Industries and many of his ideas have been implemented so he's totally due a promotion. Everything is going well until he is betrayed by his best friend, Alex Murphy, who has started to bang Jensen's special lady. Since Jensen is such a sweet guy he doesn't want to fight Murphy, who, let's face it, could kick his ass. So they decide to throw a variety of sports balls at each other until someone falls over or something. In the end it turns out that Jensen's lady friend is kind of a bitch anyway and nobody wants anything to do with her. Jensen and Murphy settle their differences and become Detroit's first ever augmented, gay private detective couple. Expect graphic scenes of gay mechanical sex and people talking about stuff that has happened.
It's a gritty drama that investigates transhuman relationships but if everyone laughs at it then it's also a black comedy.
::snake gets on his codec:: snake: o hi otacon
octacon: oh hi snake
I miss old dtoid Yaniero. get back to what made this site awesome in the first place.
Few people make and star in shit movies with such glorious dignity as Tommy Wiseau. THAT is why he's famous.
THAT IS ALL.
In case you see this, I do agree with you. I'm kind of burned out from ironically liking shit that everyone else seems to love ot do.
You mean aside from the fact that he's starring in a show about video games that primeres on sunday, and his movie The Room has a video game based on it which actually follows the film far more closely than any movie game tie-in I've ever seen?
He respects the medium, and says it's helpful to people. That's more than most.
He made an unintentionally hilarious film, he now has the smarts to turn this into a straight up comedy career. That sounds like a pretty fucking smart guy to me.
do it
Just look at Hobgoblins versus Hobgoblins 2.
Anyway, just reading that one sentence of Tommy's in his post made me laugh all over again at him. XD
Let me paraphrase what I just read:
Dtoid- Hey random dude, would you make a game?
Random Dude- Yeah, games are cool and stuff.
Jim! Seriously what hell? Ranzig here sure has been getting a lot of face time lately. Im starting to wonder if your new male innuendo header fad isn't a subconscious manifestation of whatever you have goin on with this burn out.
NO GOD PLEASE NO
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You can't feel shame if you have little to no self-awareness. The man is an oddball, and sleazy as he may be, he's celebrated because he's one of a kind. There's nothing wrong with that. He's an utter joke and he doesn't seem to mind, in fact, he revels in it. You have to give the guy some credit for making something out of less than nothing based on sheer charisma.
@Tyler Sedrick
How dare you sully the good name of the Wyld Stallyns.
that is all.