Tyler Bates to Score Watchmen

[Catman]

Tyler Bates to Score Watchmen
Source: ComingSoon.net
January 23, 2008

ComingSoon.net has confirmed that 300 composer Tyler Bates will reteam with director Zack Snyder for Watchmen:

Bates, score composer for movies and television including director Zack Snyder's blockbuster hits 300 and Dawn of the Dead, has signed on with Snyder again for Watchmen. Snyder, who praised the score to 300 saying, "It moves the film into mythology cauterizing the images as you view them, making them something they could never be alone" has once again asked Bates to join his creative team. The film based on the graphic novel stars Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Patrick Wilson.

He's also doing "The Day the Earth Stood Still" with Keanu Reeves. More details here!

I can't believe this guy got hired after it was confirmed that he stole music from Elliot Goldenthal for 300.

 

[Rust]

Where was that confirmed? Is that really true and do you know which track it was? Just curious since I'm a soundtracks buff...

 

[Luchastyle]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Bates
Just a little thing on his wiki, i searched it for you =D

I had never heard of this myself. Apparently the tracks sound eerily similar, it says which on the page. I guess you'll have to find them and judge for yourself.

 

[IKnowSomeJudo]

Listen to "Returns a King":

http://www.amazon.com/300-Original-...bs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1201094927&sr=8-1

Now listen to "Victorius Titus":

http://www.amazon.com/Titus-Origina...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1201095026&sr=1-1

 

[Agentsands77]

Yeah, they're almost identitical.

Seriously, I wish Snyder had given this to a more talented composer.

 

[Rust]

Whoa, they really are. That can't be a coincidence. What a f**kin ripoff!

Crap! And I was looking forward to something unique with WATCHMEN. I guess WATCHMEN will sound like HEROES or The Incredibles now.

 

[Catman]

I wish Snyder had given this to a more talented composer.

Agreed. There's atleast a dozen composers who could do a better job.

 

[CaptainGenerica]

Whoa, they really are. That can't be a coincidence. What a f**kin ripoff!

Crap! And I was looking forward to something unique with WATCHMEN. I guess WATCHMEN will sound like HEROES or The Incredibles now.

Well, the Incredibles did have a veritably badass theme. If entirely inappropriate for Watchmen.

But let's hope Watchmen sounds nothing like 300--talk about inappropriate.

 

[The Guard]

I can't believe this guy got hired after it was confirmed that he stole music from Elliot Goldenthal for 300.

Hey, Eliot Goldenthal stole his own music more than once.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Listen to "Returns a King":

http://www.amazon.com/300-Original-...bs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1201094927&sr=8-1

Now listen to "Victorius Titus":

http://www.amazon.com/Titus-Origina...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1201095026&sr=1-1

Oh. Wow. How blatant.

 

[The Guard]

Maybe both tracks are just real, real uninspired.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Maybe both tracks are just real, real uninspired.

That's a ****ing excellent explanation aswell.

 

[Killing Joke926]

Yeah, they're almost identitical.

Seriously, I wish Snyder had given this to a more talented composer.

I was thinking more towards Hans Zimmer or John Williams, but I'm gonna take a guess that Watchmen is out of their league (not that I have any doubts).

 

[The Guard]

That's a ****ing excellent explanation aswell.

Really?

 

[echostation]

yes really

 

[WalterKovacs]

What music did you guys hear during watchmen?

During the Manhattan scenes most of what i was hearing was Kamen's stuff from X-men, more organic than techno, but had a very non-human feel without being too distancing.

Nite owl definetly deserves his own Thomes Newman-esque piano-clarinet stuff

How the but *hell* do you do Rorschach? Or the rest of the book for that matter?
And a better question...
How is tyler bates in terms of doing intimate scenes, scenes of dialogue, scenes of romantic tension or complete tragedy? During the flaming building scene, is Bates just gonna go all-out, trumpets and brass blaring? When the Comedian falls, is their going to be some even more over-the-top choir wailing? This has potential to suck, guys...I'm worried.

 

[Sawyer]

Umm...didnt we already know he was scoring this???

 

[The Guard]

Couldn't we worry about a professional composer's music fitting the movie after we see the movie?

 

[Luchastyle]

I didn't hear any music while reading Watchmen. Other than any music i happened to be listening to while reading of course.

 

[The Guard]

Exactly.

 

[WalterKovacs]

I didn't hear any music while reading Watchmen. Other than any music i happened to be listening to while reading of course.

Well, none of us did but I mean in terms of like reading the book while thinking about "what music could be used?"

awesome avy btw. wanna explain?

 

[david icke]

What music did you guys hear during watchmen?
[....]
How the but *hell* do you do Rorschach? Or the rest of the book for that matter?

I always got a kind of Rorschach vibe from the music and lighting in the scene from Return of the Jedi when Boushh(sic) sneaks thru Jabba's throne room to free Han Solo from the carbonite. I'd like something like that except maybe not quite so John Williams-y nice if you know what I mean, a little bit grittier but the same sneaky, mysterious, nighttime vibe.

 

[Rust]

Or howsabout a dark saxophone-theme oldschool style?

 

[david icke]

Or howsabout a dark saxophone-theme oldschool style?

You mean like this?...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w14DoxRIXW4



Bit too 'Sin City' though for my liking, that was good for that movie but of course I'd prefer something that was unique to Watchmen. It does worry me if the guy's a knock-off artist, but I like to think it was just a couple of musicians going for the same kind of composition having been taught similar methods and having listened to the same composers all their life.

 

[WalterKovacs]

Rorschach strikes me as the type of character who would merrit kamen-y techno to reflect not only the images on his face, but his twisted, bizarre sense of reality and the world at large. But if he didnt get gooey techno like mystique from X-men did, then he would probably get a dark cello theme, heavy on strings that can be played in a big way when he's unmasked, and then on a high-pitched solo fiddle for when he's meeting Mal Long, the psychiatrist. Maybe with some soft piano stuff, just as long as it pulls at our heartstrings, showing us what a tragically fragmented man Walter Kovacs (the comic book character, por favor) really is.