Tab Murphy

Tab Murphy is an American screenwriter, film producer, and film director.

Biography Murphy's theatrical debut, Gorillas in the Mist, was nominated for an Academy Award for his writing. In 1995, Murphy made his directorial debut with Last of the Dogmen and wrote the feature. Afterwards, Murphy has spent nearly ten years with The Walt Disney Company writing The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1996, Tarzan in 1999, Atlantis: The Lost Empire in 2001, and Brother Bear in 2003. During his time with Disney, he was hired by TriStar Pictures to write a treatment to a planned sequel to the 1998 film Godzilla. But due to negative reviews from critics and audiences alike, the planned sequel was cancelled. After working with Disney for a few years, he then left the company in 2006 and went to work at Warner Bros. Animation for a couple years. His work includes Superman/Batman: Apocalypse and Batman: Year One, and he wrote several episodes for the 2011 Thundercats reboot, Teen Titans Go! and Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!. While at Warner Bros., Murphy wrote the direct-to-video 3D thriller film Dark Country for Sony Pictures and Stage 6 Films, based on a short story written by Murphy, and directed by Thomas Jane. He was attached to write an animated feature directed by Kirk Wise called Galaxy Gas, Towards the end of the 2010s, Murphy became involved as a writer of two crowdsourced short films: The Haunted Swordsman

Filmography

1987 Screenwriter, associate producer

1988 Story

1995 Director, screenwriter

1996 Screenwriter, animation story

1999 Screenwriter

2001 Screenwriter, story

2002 Himself, special thanks

2003

2009

2010

2011

2011-2012 Teleplay (7 episodes)

2013 Writer: story, teleplay (2 episodes)

2014 Special thanks

2016, 2017 Writer: story, teleplay (2 episode)

2019

Story

2022 Documentary; screenwriter

Untitled China Project Galaxy Gas