Relatives of the late David Foster Wallace have expressed opposition to the upcoming film The End of the Tour, based on David Lipsky's 2010 book Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace, the Associated Press reported.
Lawyers for Wallace's family and literary trust said Monday that they "have no connection with, and neither endorse nor support" the project, adding that "the trust was given no advance notice that this production was underway" and the film "is loosely based on transcripts from an interview David consented to 18 years ago for a magazine article.... That article was never published and David would have never agreed that those saved transcripts could later be repurposed as the basis of a movie."
Production on The End of the Tour, which was written by Donald Margulies, directed by James Ponsoldt and stars Jason Segel as Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg as Lipsky, wrapped last month.
