DreamWorks is getting serious – while staying heart-warming – for a true-life tale of a homeless musician in LA who dreams of playing at the city’s Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Writer/director Susannah Grant, whose directorial debut Catch And Release will arrive nest year, has will adapt a series of columns written by LA Times reporter Steve Lopez about Nathaniel Anthony Ayers.
Currently titled Imagining Beethoven, the film will chronicle Ayers’ struggle with schizophrenia with just a damaged violin and his own ability to hear the city’s noises as if it were an orchestra for company. With the help of Lopez, LA Philharmonic players and city support services, the story has a happy ending - Ayers gets an apartment, is offered cello lessons and reconnects with his family.
There’s no word on cast yet.