After achieving cult cinema status with his film, “The Room,” enigmatic actor and director Tommy Wiseau unveiled his next project, “The Big Shark” in a teaser trailer that aired at Germany’s Prince Charles Theatre.
The film, which is scheduled to be released in September, will center on a rogue shark terrorizing New Orleans.
According to the German movie website Film Futter, which first broke the news, “the teaser starts off with Patrick, played by Tommy Wiseau, who introduces his friends Tim (Isaiah LaBorde) and Georgie (Greg Sestero) to two women at a restaurant. In the next scene one of the women calls Sestero’s character a jerk and both slap him. His buddies laugh at him and he laughs it off. In the following scene they are walking back to their car when they see water at their feet running through the streets. After a cut they are already up to their hips in the water and in the background a large badly animated shark consumes its victim. After that the shark goes for the trio and they try to run away. The title card comes on, after which the shot of the CG shark swimming towards the camera and snapping is repeated multiple times.”
Wiseau became a pop culture phenomenon with the release of the “The Room” in 2003. The film, which has often been referred to as “the worst movie ever made” gained a cult following and was the subject of the 2017 film, “The Disaster Artist” which starred James Franco as Wiseau.
