Brian has officially signed on to score the upcoming movie "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2" (director - Dave Green) - premiere at 2016. It's a sequel to "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (2014) directed by Jonathan Liebesman.
Hmm. Interestingly, Tyler in a new interview says: "Jonathan Liebesman directed the first one ... I've known Jonathan for, well I did his first movie, Darkness Falls back 12 years ago or something, and we always worked together and he's working on some other things and he's not going to do the sequel, he's doing something else. I am going to be working with him on that and so I don't think I'll be doing the sequel." (June 12, http://www.musictimes.com/articles/40768/20150612/composer-brian-tyler-talks-furious-7-avengers-age-ultron-scores.htm)
Maybe this interview was conducted months before it was released?
Judging by the people involved in both movies the director of the first one was the only reason why Brian was on board. Well, that and Jablonsky being busy with the transformers.
Awesome news! Also really hope he gets the upcoming Friday the 13th gig... (that is of course if Manfredini won't be yanked in that direction)
If Jablonsky can whip up something akin to Ender's Game for TMNT2 that would be totally swell in my book. Or, of course, something completely original would be fine...but an Ender's Game flavor I think would work well in this scenario and I'd bet it helped him get this gig.
Samples. Sounds better than your average Jablonsky score but considering that Tyler's score was perhaps the epitome of his action style I'm still kind of bummed they didn't get him back.
This is a really fantastic effort by Jablonsky, but his writing for the orchestra pales beside the fantastic orchestration in Brian Tyler's Turtles score =/ Sounds like he made a real effort to connect the sequel score with the original material, but where Tyler's brass writing is massive and mature, here in the theme it sounds like a few trumpets were thrown in as an afterthought. The low register voicing just doesn't gel with the rest of orchestra. The thematic material is catchy for sure, but Your Highness had much better orchestration imo, to say nothing of Steamboy. What are you gonna do, they obviously wanted a more processed orchestra a la Zimmer. It's amazing he got away with having trumpets in the orchestra at all...
I want to buy this, but it doesn't look like there's a CD available. Does anyone know if it can be downloaded at CD quality or better at any of the online vendors? (meaning not iTunes or Amazon?)
My guess, it should be on Qobuz and HDtracks in some time.
I'd say, while not being great but this is his most enjoyable transformers score by far. Those two main themes (noble and action) are quite catchy. Brian Tyler's score was better orchestrated though. Another thing is that Klaus Badelt back in 2007 wrote the most instresting material for the turtles balancing between asian influences, heroic music and teen spirit.
The movie itself is CGI garbage with cardboard humans.
Not sure why people are digging "Half Shell" so much. Yeah, it uses Chuck Lorre's theme but doesn't do anything with it and honestly the orchestration and arrangement leave a bit to be desired.
