Source: Hollywood Reporter

DreamWorks has hired Susannah Grant to adapt a series of Los Angeles Times columns by reporter Steve Lopez about a homeless musician with schizophrenia who dreams of playing at Walt Disney Concert Hall, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Tentatively titled IMAGINING BEETHOVEN, the 12-part series profiling Nathaniel Anthony Ayers was published during the course of eight months in Lopez's Points West column last year.

Lopez's humanistic account of Ayers follows the former Julliard student's bout with mental illness as he wanders Los Angeles' Skid Row with a beat up violin and hears the city's sounds as if it were an orchestra.