We speak with prolific film composer BrianTylerMusic about his friendship with Koji Kondo and his creative process while scoring TheSuperMarioMovie:
Brian Tyler was one of the busiest composers of the modern film industry even before he took on the massive undertaking that is The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Tyler is well-known to be one of the best action movie composers of all time, having contributed music to the Fast & Furious franchise, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and more.
[It's] a story that is done live with choreography, and dancers, and sets, and a story about magic, and light and darkness. We had this outline, scene-by-scene, of what would happen, but these scenes were really dictated by the music and the choreography. So much of this was done through dance and interpretive acting, [with] very, very, very, very little dialogue, so it could translate to the world; it was a borderless kind of thing that we want to [be able to] translate across cultures.
And there are speakers by your head in every seat in that theater. Did you have to do anything differently to accommodate that? You've done so many projects based on IP, and worked in huge franchises, but everyone in the world knows Mario. What was it like coming into the project, and was there anything you looked at as you started working?
This score is big. It's orchestral, it's got choir, and it's got bands, it's got Italian instruments, accordions, live drums, mandolins, and whistling human voices. Also, I'm using eight-bit [sounds]. I'll be playing the drums, and all of a sudden the tom fill is just eight-bit tom fills. It's really eclectic, but at the same time, the goal was that it would work on a level that a score like [John Williams' score for] E.T. [does].
When [Kondo and Miyamoto] were out here, we were at Skywalker Sound doing the mix, and they love the score and the new music I did. I was so nervous playing [the music for] them. [I] did this, like, 15-minute suite of all these new themes I felt would bring you into the world. Their reaction was so unreal; they loved it so much. It was like, "Welcome to the family. This is Mario already." They kind of like stamped it.
Again, if you watch this movie and you know zippo about Mario or its music, it washes over you in that classic kind of way. I refer to John Williams with Star Wars, and Raiders, and E.T., or Silverstri's Back to the Future, or even the Lord of the Rings movies, with multiple themes throughout.
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