STEVE JABLONSKY has composed the music for many of Hollywood’s most successful films including director Michael Bay’s blockbuster “Transformers” films: “Transformers,” “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” “Transformers: Age of Extinction” and “Transformers: The Last Knight.” He also created the music for the director’s dark comedy, “Pain & Gain,” as well as his 2005 futuristic thriller, “The Island.” In addition, Jablonsky composed the scores for Bay’s Platinum Dunes horror remakes “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” “Friday the 13th,” “The Hitcher,” “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “The Amityville Horror.”
Other recent credits including the features “Red Notice” starring Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds, and directed and written by Rawson Marshall Thurber for Netflix, which opened in select theaters and was available for streaming on Netflix in November 2021; “Spenser Confidential” starring Mark Wahlberg and directed by Peter Berg for Netflix, which was released in March 2020; “Bloodshot” starring Vin Diesel and directed by David S. F. Wilson for Sony, which opened in March 2020; the action comedy “Game Over, Man! starring Adam Devine and directed by Kyle Newacheck; and the action thriller “Skyscraper” starring Dwayne Johnson and written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, which opened in July 2018, as well as Warner Bros. Pictures’ animated action-adventure feature film “DC League of Super-Pets” from director Jared Stern, in which Dwayne Johnson stars as the voice of Krypto the Super-Dog, which was released in North America on July 29, 2022.
More current projects for Jablonsky include Paramount’s star-studded animated feature “The Tiger’s Apprentice.” Based on the children’s book series of the same name by Laurence Yep and starring Henry Golding and Michelle Yeoh, “The Tiger’s Apprentice” premiered on Paramount+ in February 2024. Jablonsky also composed the score for the feature film “Borderlands,” directed by Eli Roth and starring Haley Bennett, Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart. Based on the popular video game set on the fictional planet of Pandora where people search for a mysterious relic, Borderlands was released by Lionsgate on August 9, 2024.
Jablonsky has worked on multiple projects with director Peter Berg, including the action-drama “Lone Survivor,” starring Mark Wahlberg and Taylor Kitsch, and the action adventure “Battleship,” starring Liam Neeson and Alexander Skarsgård, and the action-thriller “Deepwater Horizon.” Jablonsky also composed the score for the Keegan-Michael Key-Jordan Peele action-comedy “Keanu,” and the action-adventure “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.”
Additional film credits include the scores for the Vin Diesel-Elijah Wood actioner “The Last Witch Hunter”; Gavin Hood’s adventure “Ender’s Game,” starring Harrison Ford and Asa Butterfield; Ruben Fleischer’s “Gangster Squad,” starring Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling; David Gordon Green’s comedy adventure “Your Highness,” starring James Franco, Natalie Portman and Danny McBride; and the Japanese anime film “Steamboy,” directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, as well as documentaries “Origin Story” and “When Elephants Fight.”
For television, Jablonsky wrote the music for the smash hit ABC series “Desperate Housewives.” He also composed the scores for other series including “Threat Matrix” and ESPN’s “Sports Century: The Century’s Greatest Athletes,” as well as the award-winning telefilm “Live From Baghdad.” More recently, he scored the entire first season of NBC’s comedy, “You, Me and the Apocalypse.”
Jablonsky developed his film composing career collaborating with such noted composers as Hans Zimmer and Harry Gregson-Williams. He has written additional music for such films as “Bad Boys 2,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” “Armageddon,” “Tears of the Sun,” “Pearl Harbor,” “Hannibal” and “Deceiver.”
With videogames becoming more innovative and sophisticated, so have their scores. Jablonsky’s music can be heard in such top-selling games as “Gears of War: Judgment,” “Gears of War 2 & 3,” “Transformers: War for Cybertron,” “Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands,” “Transformers: The Game,” “The Sims 3” and “Command & Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath.”
Jablonsky also composed the music for the BMW spot “Hostage” for director John Woo, as well as commercials for such products as Chevrolet, Coca-Cola and the U.S. Army.