Production Notes of 'The Soloist'!

• The film was worked on by Dream Works Pictures, Universal Pictures and Working title
• The  director  of  photography  is  Seamus  McGarvey,  production designer is Sarah Greenwood, editor is Paul Tothill and the costume designer is Jacqueline Durran.
• The music was done by Dario Marianelli
• Susannah Grant said that she wrote the film 'about the secret, yet transcendent dreams that existeven at the American margins; it was about crossing the gulf between the privileged and the outcast; and, perhaps most intriguingly, it was about the often perilous task of trying to change a friend’s life, and how such a quest can lead paradoxically to exhilarating revelations about one’s own'
• Joe Wright felt that the film was 'The chance to present a fresh cinematic view of Los Angeles'.
• The screenplay also 'intrigued the director, who sees the film as setting up a mirror image to the glitzycity, which encompasses great beauty and streets of squalor all within blocks of each other  desire to bring the rich humanity of this invisible part of the city’s population out into the open.'
•  Jamie Foxx made an emotional connection with the character of Nathaniel before meeting him. After he felt even closer to him. He says this about his aims for his performance, “I wanted to get his speech down, I wanted to getall his subtleties down but, most of all, I wanted to capture his spirit.”
• To take Foxx through a musical boot camp, the production recruited LA Philharmonic cellist Ben Hong, a real life friend of Nathaniel
•  Foxx worked closely with Alyssa Park to learn the violin