Passionate lover,Priyani (2021) Hindi Short Film unparalleled auteur and director/star of the worst movie ever, Tommy Wiseau is reportedly threatening legal action against Australia's Sydney Underground Film Festival.

The icon has said he'll sue should it screen Room Full of Spoons, a documentary about Wiseau's infamously bad cult classic, 2003's The Room.

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The film's protagonist Johnny and Wiseau share an "everybody betray me" sentiment, it seems. Threatening to sue people is almost a constant for the film maker, as a quick Google search will reveal.


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Festival director Stefan Popescu seems unfazed, telling the Sydney Morning Herald, "If we did pull the documentary, there would be a kind of irony to it as over the last 10 years we have taken pride in screening content that was seditious.

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"Yet it will be the man with the reputation as the world's worst filmmaker that manages to censor our festival for the first time."

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"I am not completely sure if Tommy Wiseau is bluffing or not," he continued. "So my strategy at this point is to engage his lawyer in writing me as many letters as possible, as I know each letter would cost him at least $500 a pop."

A daring strategy, Mr. Popescu. Time will tell if it's you or Wiseau who's "just a chicken."

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The Sydney Underground Film Festival runs from Sept. 15 to 18 at the Factory Theatre in Marrickville, Sydney.

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