Segel will be joined on screen in the film by The Guy You Used To Call When Michael Cera Was Busy, Until The Social Network Came Out At Least, Jesse Eisenberg playing journalist David Lipsky in this film adaptation of Lipsky’s Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace, a record of the five-day jaunt he took alongside Wallace when Rolling Stone sent him to document the Infinite Jest book tour, Almost Famous-style.
Production is scheduled to begin early next year, so only time will tell if Segel can make the jump from being seriously funny…
…to being just plain serious.
Via Collider. Lead image by Kevin Winter via Getty