David Foster Wallace
was the brilliant writer who struggled with depression and committed suicide in 2008 at age 46. Jason Segal will play Wallace in an upcoming film called “The End of the Tour,” with Jesse Eisenberg as a Rolling Stone reporter accompanying Wallace on a 1996 book tour. The script is based on Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
by David Lipsky and the film will be directed by “The Spectacular Now’s” James Ponsoldt.
