David Foster Wallace’s family have objected to The End of the Tour.
Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg will star in the upcoming biopic, which the late writer’s family say he “would never have agreed” to.
The film will focus on transcripts from a road trip Wallace took with Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky during his Infinite Jest book tour.
“David would never have agreed that those saved transcripts could be later repurposed as the basis of a move,” the family said in a statement.
They further went on to say that they “wish to make it clear that they have no connection with, and neither endorse nor support The End of the Tour.”
The statement went on to say:
“This motion picture is loosely based on transcripts from an interview David consented to 18 years ago for a magazine article about the publication of his novel, Infinite Jest,
That article was never published and Davis would never have agreed that those saved transcripts could later be repurposed as the basis of a movie. The trust was given no advance notice that this production was underway and in fact, first heard of it when it was publicly announced.
For the avoidance of doubt, there is no circumstance under which the David Foster Wallace Literary Trust would have consented to adatptation of this interview into a motion picture, and we do not consider it an homage.”
Segel will play Wallace in The End of the Tour, with Eisenberg taking on the role of Lipsky.
