According to a recent report from The Wrap, Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg have been added to headline the film,  The End of the Tour. Segel will star as the late David Foster Wallace with Eisenberg playing Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky. Lipsky is both the author and central character of the film’s source material, “Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace.”

The memoir was published about a year and a half after the author’s death. In the book, Lipsky puts together a travelogue composed of interviews he conducted with DFW in 1996 during the final week of the book tour for the novelist’s epic tome.

The project will reportedly be more of a biopic, making this one of Segel’s more dramatic roles to date. This will be in stark contrast to the only other film adaptation of  a DFW book to date: John Krasinski’s stylish approach to the 1999 short story anthology, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.

Jason Ponsoldt is directing the project. The screenplay was adapted for film by Donald Margulies. Production is said to begin in February or March of 2014 with Anonymous Content’s Matt DeRoss and David Kanter and Modern Man Films’ James Dahl producing.