Wallace 'would never have agreed' to dramatisation of road trip he took with Rolling Stone reporter, says his literary estate
'No connection' with The End of the Tour … David Foster Wallace in 1996. Photograph: Gary Hannabarger/Corbis
The family of David Foster Wallace have laid out their objections to a new film about the late author, which is based on a road trip he took with a Rolling Stone reporter in 1996, saying that "David would never have agreed that those saved transcripts could later be repurposed as the basis of a movie".
The film, The End of the Tour, stars Jason Segel as Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg as David Lipsky, the reporter who wrote a book – Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself – based on the five-day trip he took with Wallace during the author's publicity tour for Infinite Jest in 1996. Images of Segel playing Wallace in the film have recently emerged, but Wallace's estate has now distanced itself emphatically from the adaptation.
A statement from the David Foster Wallace Literary Trust, Wallace's family and his publisher Little, Brown printed by the Los Angeles Times says they "wish to make it clear that they have no connection with, and neither endorse nor support The End of the Tour".
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The film, The End of the Tour, stars Jason Segel as Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg as David Lipsky, the reporter who wrote a book – Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself – based on the five-day trip he took with Wallace during the author's publicity tour for Infinite Jest in 1996. Images of Segel playing Wallace in the film have recently emerged, but Wallace's estate has now distanced itself emphatically from the adaptation.
A statement from the David Foster Wallace Literary Trust, Wallace's family and his publisher Little, Brown printed by the Los Angeles Times says they "wish to make it clear that they have no connection with, and neither endorse nor support The End of the Tour".
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