Ryan Moody, who wrote an early draft of what became “The Disaster Artist,” has filed a lawsuit alleging that he was tricked into selling his script for a mere $5,000.
A former student of James Franco’s at UCLA, Moody says he was hired to adapt Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell’s book about the making of “The Room” in 2013 and continued working on the project until March 2014, when Franco told him he wanted to replace him with more established scribes.“Hey,” Franco wrote in an email dated April 2, 2014 and obtained by Variety.
“Seth and evan [Goldberg] and [James] weaver want you on as an assoc producer and to give notes on every draft.
Cool? Get going on ‘on the bus,’ that’s yours.” “On the Bus” was Moody’s passion project, and he claims he was told its production budget would be in the same range as that of “The Disaster Artist.
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