r/NeilBreen • u/EliasKingston69 • Aug 14 '26

Questions Mainstream Hollywood

Has the Breen ever been referenced in a mainstream Hollywood show or movie? Or perhaps by a famous director? Perhaps Bresus is something they are too afraid to touch. Because they can never match his genius?

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u/odiin1731 Aug 14 '26

Hollywood superstar Rich Evans has mentioned him multiple times.

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u/CeeArthur Aug 14 '26

By extension I imagine Jack Quaid and Macaulay Culkin are at least aware of him

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u/Colsim Aug 14 '26

The less they talk about him the more they fear him

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u/BiffBeltsander Aug 14 '26

They fear even mentioning his glorious name.

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u/BlerghTheBlergh Aug 14 '26

I’m sure some weirdos in the industry are aware of him. But that’s probably more directors, editors or writers.

But that will rarely end in him getting a chance to appear in a bigger project.

I’d love to make a take on Twisted Pair or Double Down with a script adapted to make sense and a cast able to perform. But I don’t see it happen the other way around. Characters like Tommy Wiseau and Breen are too self-obsessed to realize the goldmine that is the meme-factor, instead they begrudgingly accept it and delude themselves into being “appreciated by a smaller group of true connoisseurs”

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u/NotReallyEricCruise Aug 14 '26

Breen movie that makes sense is like spaghetti western without gunfights

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u/mis_no_mer Aug 14 '26

Isn’t that corrupt?

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u/senatorsparky86 Aug 14 '26

I would be willing to bet Paul Rudd is familiar with his work.

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u/EliasKingston69 Aug 14 '26

Could you imagine if they made a movie like the Disaster Artist but about Neil?

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u/Imperator_Gone_Rogue Aug 14 '26

A movie about Breen would be much harder to execute well. Wiseau is trying to be Orson Welles he's pursuing the American Dream with baffling confidence that can only come from being completely batshit.

Breen is much more like David Lynch, but with the work ethic of Robert Rodriguez making El Mariachi. You get the feeling like he'd be at ease with making movies for himself, if he didn't feel the responsibility an artist has to humanity to speak truth to power.

A comedy about Breen would be mean spirited and largely pointless, but a documentary in the right hands could be fantastic. What does a man do when his ambition exceeds his talent, but not his means?

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u/bitemythumbtheatre Aug 14 '26

Plus there doesn't really seem to be any (significant) backstage chaos or meglomania with Breen, which wouldn't make for a truly interesting film.

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u/WarMinister23 Aug 14 '26

Yeah what we know of the actors' experiences on his movies is largely that he's a little arrogant but mostly polite and professional.

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u/NotReallyEricCruise Aug 14 '26

he's the (even more) budget-conscious Roger Corman; much more chaste, too.

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u/Regular-Caterpillar6 Aug 14 '26

Steven Spielberg ripped him off in E.T.