Ted Tally
Ted Tally (born April 9, 1952) is an American
Career
Screenwriter
Born William Theodore Tally in
After declining to write the screenplay for Hannibal, Tally returned to the franchise to write Red Dragon. When asked by Inside Film Online why he opted not to write the screenplay for Hannibal, he responded, "For a lot of reasons. I didn't like the book. The director, Jonathan Demme, and I read it and were horrified. We didn't see how we could make a movie from it that we could be proud of and not feel sleazy about it, without making it a totally different story, which we could have done on our own. It was upsetting because we had a friendship with Tom Harris and felt we owed him a lot. But he was defensive and didn't want anything changed and it was frustrating because it would have been the biggest payday for all of us, putting us up there in Spielberg territory."[4]
Plays and awards
Terra Nova was given a staged reading at the
Other activities
Tally is also credited as an associate producer for Mission to Mars (2000), as well as story consultant for Shrek 2 (2004) and creative consultant for Madagascar (2005) and Shrek the Third (2007).
Filmography
Screenwriter
- The Father Clements Story (1987)
- White Palace (1990)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- The Juror (1996)
- Before and After (1996)
- All the Pretty Horses (2000)
- Red Dragon (2002)
- 12 Strong (2018)
Other
- Mission to Mars (2000)
- Shrek 2 (2004)
- Madagascar (2005)
- Shrek the Third (2007)
References
- ^ Russakoff, Dale (March 29, 1992). "Writer Ted Tally And The Sacrifices Of 'Lambs'". The Washington Post. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
- ^ Grow, Kory (February 12, 2016). "Silence of the Lambs at 25: It Broke All the Rules". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
- ^ "Ted Tally - IMDb". IMDb.
- ^ "Austin Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference Draws Top Talent". Inside Film Magazine. April 1999.
