Screenwriter live-tweets Nicole Kidman's worst-ever film; is more entertaining than the movie.

“Anyone know what’s going on?”

Arash Amel, 39, has one film on his resume that he would like stricken from the record, and took to Twitter to live-tweet everything that went wrong during filming as it made its US debut on the Lifetime channel.

The Nicole Kidman turkey Grace of Monaco was described as “a film so awe-inspiringly wooden that it is basically a fire-risk” by The Guardian. Other publications were a whole lot meaner.

Welsh-born Amel wrote the screenplay, which is about actress Grace Kelly in 1962 when she was transitioning from being a movie star to being the wife of Prince Rainier III of Monaco.

Cigar-chomping producer extraordinaire Harvey Weinsten picked up the film for US distribution and it was touted as a possible Oscar contender. Then came public stoushes between Weintein and the French director, Olivier Dahan, who each had entirely different cuts of the film made.

Next, the Monaco royals expressed their extreme displeasure with the film’s apparently laissez-faire attitude to historical fact.

Finally, Weinstein withdrew the film from cinema release. It went from Oscar contender to very expensive telemovie in one fell swoop.

Grace of Monaco aired on the Lifetime channel in the US last night for the first time. The channel is best known for made-for-TV melodramas and schmaltzy romances.

Amel tuned in and, as he had previously vowed, live-tweeted the very expensive turkey, to the delight of the Twittersphere.

“The purpose of this live tweet is to correct the record, an explanation, an apology and most of all a bit of light hearted fun,” Amel tweeted.

He was kind to Nicole Kidman, several times praising her performance and saying that she was “the best. Terrific to work with on every level.”

Amel obviously had  big problems with the film’s editing, as well as its direction – and the music. Oh, the music.

“The music. Save me. Save me. #GOMFacts,” he tweeted. “I have held my ears and shrieked on many an occasion hearing that music.”

He also shared pictures from throughout the filming, which was apparently troubled from the beginning.

“Nobody knew what they were doing on this day #GOMFacts,” he tweeted during one scene.

The script, written by Amel in 2011, was one of the most hotly contested in Hollywood and listed on the Hollywood Black List of most-liked screenplays. It was sold to French producer Pierre-Ange Le Pogam.

Things went downhill for Amel after that.

“When I sat down to write #GraceofMonaco in May 2011, I had no idea it would still be entertaining the world 4 years later. #GOMFacts,” he tweeted.

Apart from the music problem, Amel also never liked that tonally, the movie was inspired by Vertigo – a Hitchcock film that Grace Kelly wasn’t even in.

“Anyone know what’s going on? #GOMFacts,” he tweeted midway through the film.

When you write a movie, and someone makes it, and you’re like … pic.twitter.com/MfapV7MeSH

— Arash Amel (@arashamel) May 26, 2015

Towards the end, Amel signalled it had gone on altogether too long.

“The movie should have ended thirty seconds ago #GOMFacts,” he wrote.

Once the film was finally over, Amel needed a little time to regain his wits.

“I’m now lying in a dark room, drinking bone broth to recover,” he tweeted.

Have you seen Grace of Monaco? Is it really that bad?

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