where did the money from the room come from
The Room (film) Wiseau has been secretive about how he obtained funding for the project, but told Entertainment Weekly that he made some of the money by importing leather jackets from Korea.[3] According to The Disaster Artist (Greg Sestero's book based on the making of The Room), Wiseau was already independently wealthy at the time production began. Over several years, he had amassed a fortune through entrepreneurship and real estate development in Los Angeles and San Francisco.[9] Wiseau spent the entire US$6,000,000 (equivalent to about $8,000,000 in 2017) budget for The Room on production and marketing.[3] Wiseau stated that the film was relatively expensive because many members of the cast and crew had to be replaced.[10] According to Sestero, Wiseau made numerous poor decisions during filming that unnecessarily inflated the film's budgetâ€”Wiseau built sets for sequences that could have been filmed on location, purchased unnecessary equipment, and filmed scenes multiple times using different sets.[11] Wiseau also forgot his lines and place on camera, resulting in minutes-long dialogue sequences taking hours or days to shoot. Wiseau's actions further caused the film's cost to skyrocket, according to Sestero.[12]