We chat with highly prolific film and video game composer Brian Tyler (BrianTylerMusic) about his work on FastX, being inspired by Jason Momoa, and how his latest score compares to his previous FastAndFurious ones:
The Fast & Furious franchise is coming to a close starting with Fast X. The tenth installment in the long-running franchise is the beginning of the end for the core Fast family, and fittingly pulls out all the stops in the process. What’s more, even as the franchise speeds toward the finish line, it has introduced one of its best-ever villains in Jason Momoa’s Dante.
Brian Tyler: Yes and no. This one is quite different. I can't wait for you to get the score on its own, which we're mastering right now. It's out June 2nd. The approach was similar in terms of the order of things. The first thing I did on this one was that from the script, and from talking to people early on, and then as Louie came on board and started to shoot, I started to write music. Once I saw Jason Momoa's performance, it was like, "There are all these characters.
So, here comes a new character, right? Here comes Jason Momoa. You go back to Fast Five, to the heist in Rio, at the beginning, and you're seeing this amazing sequence from another perspective; you're seeing it from the villain's perspective. The cool thing about that is that it creates empathy for the villain. He's not just a mindless, "I am going to nuke the planet" kind of villain. You get it.
Something that really stood out to me in watching the movie was the whole Rome sequence. It's, like, a 10-minute action sequence, and there's music the whole time. How do you keep the music building for that long? Also, something that I do is something I call a shepherd tempo. There's something called a shepherd tone, which is a note that loops around itself and always sounds like it's going upward. There's a thing that happens where if you ramp up too slowly in tempo, there's this thing that happens where you don't notice it, and so it's useless. What would happen is that people in both film scoring and in DJing would, I think, make a mistake.
Fast X is now going to be a trilogy, I think, but as someone who has had the Fast movies in his life for so long, have you started thinking about the end yet? How's that been for you?
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