The upcoming David Foster Wallace biopic The End of the Tour has yet to premiere in front of Sundance screens, but it already found a distributor. A24 picked up the biopic yesterday, with a fall, awards-season release planned.
Deadline got the distribution news. This marks the fourth preemptive deal for a 2015 Sundance film, with Fox Searchlight snatching up Noah Baumbach's (The Squid and the Whale) Mistress America, Lionsgate acquiring Jared Hess' (Napoleon Dynamite) latest Don Verdean and Magnolia picking up Results, starring Guy Pierce and Cobie Smulders.
The End of the Tour is directed by James Ponsoldt, who brought A24 a lot of success with his last movie, The Spectacular Now starring Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley. The new studio is quickly becoming a big heavy-hitter in the indie scene, also releasing the well-acclaimed A Most Violent Year in 2014. The deal is supposedly in the $2-3 million range.
Starring Jason Segel as the reclusive Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg as David Lipsky, the Rolling Stone reporter covering the five-day interview with the author in 1996, The End of the Tour also features Joan Cusack, Anna Chlumsky, Mamie Gummer and Mickey Sumner. It is scheduled to make its world premiere later today. It was first announced in December 2013.
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