Since the late 2000s, Tommy Wiseau’s failed feature film The room held a special place in the hearts of cult film fans when a Midnight Movie, Collective Interactive Theater Experience and Conversation Starter
But he never made a second film – until now. At least it looks like he made a movie. The trailer for his upcoming project Big Shark debuted his first online appearance Thursday after making the rounds Room demonstrations. The thing is, the trailer is roughly 50 percent movie trailer and 50 percent stylized black-and-white advertisement for Tommy Wiseau’s (very real) lingerie line TW underwear – or, as the logo seems to call it, TWUNDERWEAR.
The film’s logline, according to the film’s YouTube listing: “Three firefighters (George, Patrick & Tim) must save New Orleans from a giant shark. Can New Orleans survive?” That doesn’t necessarily explain why half of the movie trailer portion of the trailer focuses on boxing with no fire in sight, let alone anyone fighting it. The boxers are also apparently named Jimmy and Tommy, suggesting they aren’t even the subjects of the film. There’s also a big CGI shark that gets slammed into the middle of it all, leaping right into the middle of the city streets in what appears to be a lost scene Sharknado.
And then the whole thing suddenly shifts to a TWUNDERWEAR ad, in which various shirtless men throw a basketball around in slow motion while Wiseau himself, wearing a particularly odd 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 is spoon art on a random wall The room
It’ll be a while before audiences figure out how this all fits together, eh Big Shark features graphically veined shots of Wiseau’s bared and flexing buttocks, and whether Big Shark is destined to become one Room-Level interactive viewing experience. The film says variety debuts April 2nd in Portland, Oregonfollowed by an eight-month tour of the United States, one city at a time.