Jason Segel might not be the first actor you'd think of to play David Foster Wallace, the quirkily brilliant Midwestern author of expansive, inventive novels (of which the 1,100 plus-page tome ...

Then he did the 2015 film “The End of the Tour,” where he played the late novelist David Foster Wallace, which earned Segel excellent reviews. Richard Lawson wrote in Vanity Fair, “Segel handles ...

Jason Segel plays tragic genius David Foster Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg the Rolling Stone reporter whose aborted profile of him became a highly personal eulogy.

The story follows only a few days in the tragically short life of Wallace (Segel) as he’s shadowed by Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) in the final week of his book tour for his ...