Jason Segel as David Foster Wallace in ‘The End of the Tour’

Segel as David Foster Wallace
In a new trailer for “The End of the Tour,” actor Jason Segel portrays the brilliant writer David Foster Wallace. The film follows Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) traveling with Wallace for an interview not long after the publicatoin of Wallace’s 1996 novel Infinite Jest. James Ponsoldt directed the movie, which is based on a memoir by Lipsky called Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace.

The trailer indicates Segel pulls off the serious role as the late Wallace very well and makes this one of the movies I am looking forward to seeing.

The End of the Tour will hit theaters in a limited release on July 31.

What do you think of the “The End of the Tour” trailer? Leave your two cents in the comments.

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    One thought on “Jason Segel as David Foster Wallace in ‘The End of the Tour’”

    1. I’m still somewhat skeptical he’s going to pull this off well. I’ve seen interviews of DFW, and Segel is almost playing him a little too ‘effeminate’. Have to wait to see the movie, I guess.

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