Check Out Jason Segel as David Foster Wallace in This New Trailer
David Foster Wallace, genius nonfiction writer and boundary-pushing novelist, killed himself in 2008 at the age of 46. It's still incredibly fresh and painful for many acquainted with his work. Meaning there's no way The End of the Tour, the biographical film by James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now), can simply be a flick where the damningly underestimated Jason Segel plays DFW for a couple hours.
But that will be a part of it, and possibly the crux of it, this performance. We've been dying to see—and dying at the potential discomfort, disappointment, sadness of seeing—the star of How I Met Your Mother, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and The Muppets as one of the most distinctive literary icons of modern times. Now's our first glimpse.
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