Talbot has considerable experience writing for the screen, including the classic British
comedy series The League of Gentlemen; feature films The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
Galaxy (Garth Jennings, 2005), Closed Circuit (John Crowley, 2013) and, most recently, the
animated sensation Sing (Garth Jennings, 2016) for Illumination Entertainment (Despicable
Me, Minions); and has been twice commissioned by the British Film Institute to re-score
silent films The Lodger (1999) and The Dying Swan (2002).