You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
Avengers Age of Ultron is the second movie featuring the Avengers,
a supergroup of comic book heroes.
The other character in the title, Ultron, is the villain in this story.
If you haven't seen the film, that's all the background you need to know for this episode.
Composer Brian Tyler disassembles the cue he wrote to accompany the film's title card.
It was recorded at Abbey Road Studios with the London Philharmonic, with Brian himself conducting.
Hi, I'm Brian Tyler, composer of the film Avengers Age of Ultron.
The piece that we're listening to here is the title card,
where it says Avengers Age of Ultron over the screen, and the scene that precedes that.
I was actually thinking it would be some big Avengers fanfare for the good guys,
you know, for our heroes.
But Joss said, that's Joss Whedon who wrote and directed the film.
Joss said, no, no, no, no, no. He's going to say Avengers in big letters.
You'll see Ultron in smaller letters, but you're going to be feeling Ultron.
This movie is about our team not having control.
It was kind of fun to do a villainous title card for a Marvel movie.
I think it was a first.