Terry Hayes

Terry Hayes is one of the highly reputed English-born author from the United States, who likes to write mystery and thriller novels. He is also a noteworthy screenwriter and producer, best known for his collaborations with the production house of Kennedy Miller. Author Terry was born on October 8, 1951, in England. Before getting worldwide recognition as a writer of mystery novels, author Terry used to originally work as a journalist in New York. He was involved in this profession for a considerable amount of time. On one occasion he got the chance to meet the popular Hollywood director named George Miller while he was doing the novelization of the plot of the 1979 famous movie Mad Max. After a few more unexpected meetings, the two began going along well. When they became acquainted with each other very well, author Terry was hired by George Miller to help him in developing the script for the sequel of Mad Max, called Mad Max 2. Both of them worked together on the script of the movie for around two years and it was subsequently made and released in the year 1981. After this collaboration, author Terry went on to become a regular writer for the Kennedy Miller production company. He worked on a number of scripts of their various mini-series. In the meantime, Terry even attempted to write an independent script for the film called Dead Calm, which was released in 1989. Author Terry received some success as a writer after the moderate success of the movie. Following this, he shifted to Hollywood. In the year 2001, Terry was nominated for the prestigious Bram Stoker Award in the category of the best Screenplay. This nomination was given to him for his excellent work on the script of the film From Hell.