Bates composes Earth

Classic movie composers off the top of my head include Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, John Carpenter, Alan Silvestri, and Hans Zimmer (to name a few). Slowly but surely though, a new kid on the block is pushing his way up and becoming one of the big dawgs in composing music for the modern cinema. His name? Tyler Bates.

Bates has done everything from 2004’s DAWN OF THE DEAD, to last year’s 300, and even a few by Rob Zombie (THE DEVIL’S REJECTS, HALLOWEEN). Talk about a killer resume!

ComingSoon.net scored the scoop that Bates has just signed on to compose the music for two big, upcoming projects. The first, re-teaming with director Zack Snyder for THE WATCHMAN, and second — taking on the classic Sci-Fi remake of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL for director Scott Derrickson.

Both projects sounds particularly exciting — I’m actually quite stoked to hear what he’s gonna come up with for EARTH. Will it reflect the original film’s musical score? Will it go in its own crazy direction? I guess we’ll just have to wait and see!

To check out the full scoop, click HERE, and look for the remake of DAY OF THE DEAD (another film to his list of composing credits) on DVD April 8th.