Brian Tyler

Brian Tyler is not only a composer and conductor, but also plays guitar, piano, drums, percussion, and programs the electronics for his scores. Although he has written many fine scores, he unfortunately didn't have a lot of luck in getting quality films to score until recently. Nevertheless, his high-energy style and versatility bring a sense of class to the projects he scores. He began composing and conducting his own pieces at a young age before he turned to film composition with Six-String Samurai. His score for Bill Paxton's Frailty garnered positive attention, and Tyler would go on to score Paxton's The Greatest Game Ever Played. But his most famous score would be for the miniseries Children of Dune, for which Tyler combined exotic percussion, world music, and grandiloquent themes into an enormously enticing package. The "Summon the Worms" cue would be used in many trailers, including Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Tyler provided a rousing replacement score to Richard Donner's ill-fated Timeline when original composer Jerry Goldsmith (one of Tyler's influences) became too ill to revise his music for the newly re-cut picture. Tyler has since become a specialist at writing high-octane action scores that combine compositional skill with up-to-date electronic riffs. These include Darkness Falls, Rambo, Bangkok Dangerous, War, Dragonball Evolution, The Expendables films, Battle: Los Angeles, Now You See Me, and the fourth and fifth installments in the Final Destination series. Eagle Eye, Alien vs. Predator: Requiem, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles feature particularly furious and unrelenting action cues. Speaking of furious, Tyler has also scored music for most of the recent installments in the Fast and Furious series: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast and Furious, Fast Five, and Furious 7. The music in the Tokyo Drift starts out heavily electronic (including contributions from guitarist Slash) and becomes more orchestral in Fast Five. The first three were directed by Justin Lin, whom Tyler also worked with on Annapolis and Finishing the Game. Tyler also became one of the composers for the Marvel stables with his muscular, large-scale scores to Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, and The Avengers: Age of Ultron. For TV, Tyler scored the pilot of the rebooted Hawaii Five-0, the series Terra Nova, and Transformers: Prime (the latter having a more interesting score than its big-screen brethren). He has also scored a handful of video games, including Need for Speed: The Run, LEGO Universe, and the popular Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. LEGO Universe is one of his best scores, with a delightful main theme, colorful orchestrations, and a variety of catchy tunes. Although Tyler certainly gets plenty of work, one can hope that his Marvel scores promise more prestigious assignments that will allow him to explore new musical territories.

Alien vs. Predator: Requiem

Annapolis
The Avengers: Age of Ultron (with Danny Elfman)

Bangkok Dangerous

Battle: Los Angeles

Bubba Ho-Tep
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Children of Dune

Darkness Falls

Dragonball Evolution

Eagle Eye

The Expendables
The Expendables 2
The Expendables 3

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Fast and Furious

Fast Five
Furious 7
The Fate of the Furious

The Final Cut

The Final Destination

Final Destination 5

Frailty

The Greatest Game Ever Played

The Hunted
Iron Man 3

LEGO Universe**
The Mummy (2017)
Need for Speed: The Run
Now You See Me
Now You See Me 2

Paparazzi
Partition
Power Rangers
Rambo (2008)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles*
Terra Nova
Thor: The Dark World

Timeline

Transformers: Prime

War