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     *Jamie Foxx will return to familiar territory in the new DreamWorks film “The Soloist,” a musical biopic based on the true story of a homeless, schizophrenic musician who dreams of playing at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

      The story is based on a 12-part series of articles by Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez about Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, who developed schizophrenia in his second year at Juilliard and ended up homeless on the streets of downtown L.A. where he performs the violin and cello.

      Foxx – a classically trained musician who won an Academy Award for playing Ray Charles in the 2004 biopic “Ray” – is being taught stringed instruments by a cellist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.      

      Lopez's articles, "From Skid Row to Disney Hall," were published in 2005 and will serve as the basis for an upcoming book by Putnam. “The Soloist” will be directed by Joe Wright (“Pride and Prejudice”) from a script by Susannah Grant (“Erin Brockovich”).