Film Tyler began scoring features shortly after graduating from Harvard.
Robert Kraft, who was impressed with Tyler's music, encouraged him to pursue a career in film scoring. Tyler's first film score was for the
independent film Bartender (1997), directed by Gabe Torres. The following year, he and
Red Elvises composed the score for
Six-String Samurai (1998). Tyler's breakthrough came in the early 2000s, after composing for the
Frailty (2001). His work on
Last Call (2002) earned him an induction into the music branch of the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. His cues for
Children of Dune were used in multiple other theatrical film trailers, including
Master and Commander (2003),
Sahara (2005),
Cinderella Man (2005),
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005),
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), and
Star Trek (2009). The track "Summon the Worms" was used as a leader for the Dutch show
Peking Express, and in the first leaked promotional reel for
The Golden Compass (2007). In 2007, he was hired to compose for
Partition (2007), where he integrated Indian and Middle Eastern music with orchestral writing. He conducted the orchestral portion of the score with the
Hollywood Studio Symphony in Los Angeles. On September 5, 2011, Tyler announced that he was in talks to score the 2011 remake of
Highlander, and pilot episodes for the animated series
Transformers: Prime. He scored four episodes of the latter. In 2012, Tyler scored and arranged a new version of the fanfare of the
Universal Pictures logo, originally composed by
Jerry Goldsmith, in observance of the studio's 100th anniversary. The new score added a choir, a more majestic arranging style, and a closing drum cadence. It made its debut alongside the logo with
The Lorax on March 2, 2012. In 2013, Tyler composed the fanfare of
Marvel Studios, which made its debut alongside the logo with
Thor: The Dark World, which he also composed the score of the film, on October 23, 2013, at the
Odeon Leicester Square. In addition to composing
the score for
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), an original song was released for the film entitled "
Shell Shocked", credited to Tyler as his stage name Madsonik, alongside
Kill the Noise,
Wiz Khalifa,
Ty Dolla $ign,
Juicy J,
Moxie Raia, and Seann Bowe. It reached No. 2 on the iTunes hip-hop singles charts and has sold over 500,000 copies. On October 12, 2016, Tyler was hired to score the 2017 action-adventure film
XXX: Return of Xander Cage. He also contributed to the soundtrack by his stage name Madsonik, in a collaboration with Tom Morello and Kill The Noise entitled "Divebomb". On March 2, 2018, he announced on Twitter that he had been hired to write a new theme for
Formula One; it was released on March 23. The theme was also used in both
Formula 2 and
Formula 3 since 2019, as well as the
F1 Academy since 2023. In August 2018, a 27-track soundtrack composed by Tyler for the cable TV series
Yellowstone was issued in CD format and as an MP3 download on Amazon. On July 16, 2024, it was announced that Tyler composed the official anthem of the
Esports World Cup (an
esports tournament series held in
Saudi Arabia), entitled "Dare to Triumph".
Music Tyler is the musician behind the audio-visual project "Are We Dreaming". In an interview with
BMI, he described his project as an exploration of space and the connection to human emotion driven through his usual film soundtrack style. ==Personal life==