Tommy Wiseau Loses $700,000 Lawsuit Related to The Room Documentary Room Full of Spoons

After years of endless stalling and attempts to turn back the clock, The Room’s Tommy Wiseau is finally being forced to pay up to the documentary filmmakers who have spent almost a decade trying to complete and release the film A Room Full of Spoons. Today, a Canadian court has ordered Wiseau pay a total of $700,000 to the Room Full of Spoons team for his repeated attempts to delay and thwart the film’s release. Wiseau’s motivation? He reportedly found the documentary “unflattering.”
A Room Full of Spoons began its initial production in 2011 after amateur filmmaker Rick Harper first met Wiseau and co-star Greg Sestero. The entire process is detailed in a long, sprawling Reddit post by user “cannonfunk,” which is too long to summarize in its entirety here, but suffice to say, Wiseau quickly went from being a supporter of the documentary to its primary opposition. He had apparently thought that Room Full of Spoons would be the equivalent of a puff piece, chronicling screenings of The Room as cult sensation and Wiseau as the mysterious impresario screening it. When Wiseau found out that the filmmakers were speaking with various performers and behind-the-scenes crew involved in the film’s production, however he quickly changed his tune.
One of the most interesting of those people has been Sandy Schklair, the original script supervisor on The Room, who was played in James Franco’s The Disaster Artist by Seth Rogen. Schklair has become rather infamous in recent years among The Room fans for his subsequent claims that he was the true director of the film, having been hired by Wiseau to supervise the script but essentially given the duty of day-to-day director. He even wrote a book to this effect, titled Yes, I Directed The Room: The Truth About Directing the “Citizen Kane of Bad Movies”, in which he claims to have directed every frame of footage seen in the film. Likewise, he makes the somewhat confusing claim to have intentionally directed the film’s actors poorly, essentially claiming to have sabotaged the movie from within. However, several members of The Room’s cast have since refuted Schklair’s claims via social media, saying that Wiseau was indeed directing scenes of The Room.