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Ted Tally (born
April 9,
1952) is an
Academy Award winning
American playwright and
screenwriter.
Born Theodore Tally in
North Carolina, Tally was educated at
Yale College and the
Yale School of Drama, and has also taught at each of them. His most notable credit is the
screenplay for
The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the
Academy Award for Best Screenplay as well as the
Writers Guild of America Award,
Chicago Film Critics Award and an
Edgar Award from the
Mystery Writers of America. Other scripts include
White Palace,
Before and After,
Outbreak, and
All the Pretty Horses.
In addition to
Terra Nova, which won an
Obie Award, and
Coming Attractions, which won the
Outer Critics Circle Award, Tally's plays include
Hooters,
Little Footsteps, and
Silver Linings. His television scripts include
The Comedy Zone,
Hooters,
Terra Nova for
BBC-TV, and
The Father Clements Story which won him the
Christopher Award. His other honors include fellowships from the
NEA and the
Guggenheim Foundation.
After declining to write the screenplay for
Hannibal, Tally returned to the
Hannibal Lecter franchise to write
Red Dragon. When asked by Inside Film Online magazine 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'd 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."
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Tally is also credited as an associate producer for
Mission to Mars (2000), as well as creative consultant for
Madagascar (2005) and story consultant for
Shrek 2 (2004).
Tally lives with his wife and two children in
Pennsylvania. His son's name is Austin (b.1988)and his daughter's name is Amanda (b. 1992).
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