Brian Tyler talks Fast Five (2011)

Of the seven Fast and Furious films that have been released, Fast Five (2011) remains the first and only film in the series that I have watched. It was my senior year of college, and the local movie theater was having a “Free Movie Night” for all the students of the university, and I’d never seen a Fast and Furious film before, so I decided to check it out. I remember enjoying it and laughing a lot! This was before I discovered my calling for film music, so I didn’t really pay any attention to the score at the time, but I was delighted years later to discover that Brian Tyler was the composer for that film.

Brian Tyler may not be an immediately recognizable name, but it surely will be in years to come: he has already composed the music for Thor: The Dark World, Avengers: Age of Ultron; Constantine; The Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift, among many, many others.

This interview gives a great look at Brian Tyler in his recording space. As a film music scholar, it’s so exciting for me to be able to see his computer layout where he records and then synthesizes all these melodies together (I still have a dream of meeting some of these film composers some day).

I hope you enjoy this interview!

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