Two months after signing a contract to play in the movie The Soloist, Oscar winner Jamie Foxx, has also accepted the part in the DreamWorks film The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights.
Foxx will play Prentice Earl Sanders, one of the first Black detectives, who must solve a series of murders that seem to be racially motivated, committed in San Francisco between 1973 – 1974.
Foxx was the first choice for DreamWorks, whom he has also worked with for the movies Dreamgirls, Collateral and Ray, which he won an Oscar for in 2004.