Brian Theodore Tyler (born May 8, 1972) is an American film, television and video game composer who primarily creates scores for action adventure films. Tyler pursued a film career in high school, and was eventually tapped to compose the soundtrack to Six String Samurai in 1998. From there, Tyler went to score a number of critically-acclaimed scores for such films as Frailty, Darkness Falls, Constantine and Annapolis.
In addition, he has scored multiple installments of major Hollywood franchises, including the 3rd-5th, 7th-10th The Fast and the Furious films, the fourth and fifth installments of Final Destination and the first three installments of The Expendables. His works blend heavy symphonic work with bombastic musical cues.
Outside of Film, he has composed the current official theme song
for Formula One of all things (in use since 2018, which also makes him a Promoted Fanboy, to that effect.)
Tyler has also proved to be very good at melding past themes created in older franchise works with his own musical motifs (to ensure a sense of continuity). These include Rambo, Alien Vs. Predator: Requiem and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Tyler seems to be following in the footsteps of the late, legendary composer Jerry Goldsmith as he is now working with adapting some of Goldsmith's scores (Rambo, Alien vs. Predator, Timeline) with the latest being that of adapting the new Universal logo fanfare for its centennial anniversary. He is has also shown signs of being just as eclectic as Goldsmith, using a collection of instruments from various ethnic backgrounds and more strange devices such as retro cars, and has proven to be just as prolific.
Although he didn't score Skyline (his colleague Matthew Margeson wrote the music for that one), he was one of the executive producers.
Selected filmography:
- Six String Samurai (1998)
- Simon Sez (1999)
- Frailty (2001)
- Bubba Ho Tep (2002)
- Darkness Falls (2003)
- The Hunted (2003)
- The Big Empty (2003)
- Timeline (2003) - Replaced Jerry Goldsmith's original score due to
Executive Meddling. - Godsend (2004)
- Paparazzi (2004)
- Constantine (2005)
- The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
- Annapolis (2006)
- Bug (2006)
- The Fast and the Furious
- War (2007)
- Partition (2007)
- Rambo IV (2008)
- Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2008)
- Bangkok Dangerous 2008
- Eagle Eye (2008)
- The Lazarus Project (2008)
- The Killing Room (2009)
- Dragonball Evolution (2009)
- Final Destination 4 (2009) and Final Destination 5 (2011)
- Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
- The Expendables (2010), The Expendables 2 (2012) and The Expendables 3 (2014)
- Middle Men (2010)
- Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
- John Dies at the End (2012)
- Goat Island (2012)
- Now You See Me (2013) and Now You See Me 2 (2016)
- Standing Up (2013)
- Marvel Cinematic Universe
- Iron Man 3 (2013)
- Thor: The Dark World (2013) - Tyler also composed the music for the Marvel Studios logo for Phase 2.
- Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015, with Danny Elfman) - becoming the first composer to score three films for the MCU.
- Into the Storm (2014)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (which opened on the same day as the above)
- Truth (2015)
- The Disappointments Room (2016)
- Xx X Return Of Xander Cage (2017) (with Robert Lydecker)
- Power Rangers (2017)
- The Mummy (2017)
- Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
- Five Feet Apart (2019) (with Breton Vivian)
- Ready or Not (2019)
- Rambo: Last Blood (2019) using Jerry Goldsmith's themes.
- Charlie's Angels (2019)
- Scream (2022)
- Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022)
- Scream VI (2023) (with Sven Faulconer)
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) (with Koji Kondo)
- Abigail (2024)
Tyler has also composed scores and themes for the following television series:
- Children of Dune: Said to be his best work so far.
- The Education of Max Bickford
- Star Trek: Enterprise ("Canamar" and "Regeneration") making him an Promoted Fanboy in this case.
- Hawaii Five-0 (the reboot; with Keith Power)
- Inside
- Painkiller Jane
- Terra Nova
- Transformers: Prime
- Sleepy Hollow (with Robert Lydecker)
- Scorpion (with Tony Morales)
And the following video games:
- LEGO Universe (2010)
- Need for Speed: The Run (2011)
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011)
- Far Cry 3 (2012)
- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013)
