Brian Tyler

Brian Tyler 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 third, fourth and fifth Fast And The Furious films, the fourth and fifth installments of Final Destination and both installments of The Expendables. His works blend heavy symphonic work with bombastic musical cues.

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, Aliens 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 it's centennial anniversary.

Selected filmography

 * Six String Samurai (1998)
 * Frailty (2001)
 * Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
 * Darkness Falls (2003)
 * The Hunted (2003)
 * The Big Empty (2003)
 * Timeline (2003)
 * Godsend (2004)
 * Paparazzi (2004)
 * Constantine (2005)
 * The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
 * Annapolis (2006)
 * Bug (2006)
 * The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), Fast & Furious (2009) and Fast Five (2011)
 * War (2007)
 * Partition (2007)
 * Rambo (2008)
 * Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2008)
 * Bangkok Dangerous (2008)
 * Eagle Eye (2008)
 * The Lazarus Project (2008)
 * The Killing Room (2009)
 * Dragon Ball Evolution (2009)
 * The Final Destination (2009) and Final Destination 5 (2011)
 * Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
 * The Expendables (2010) and The Expendables 2 (2012)
 * Middle Men (2010)
 * Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
 * John Dies At The End (2012)
 * Goat Island (2012)

Tyler has also composed scores for the following television series

 * Children of Dune
 * The Education of Max Bickford
 * Star Trek: Enterprise ("Canamar" and "Regeneration")
 * Hawaii Five-0 (reboot)
 * Inside
 * Painkiller Jane
 * Terra Nova
 * Transformers Prime

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)