“I was touching the void”: The composer of ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ has really been through it | CNN

Brian Tyler remembers being in a hospital bed when the music for “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” came to him. While in his music studio in August 2025, the composer suffered a major medical incident: a double subarachnoid brain hemorrhage — bleeding in the space between the brain and the membrane covering it. “It just happened out of nowhere,” said Tyler, 53, speaking from his home in Los Angeles. “It’s like lightning striking and I was touching the void, facing the blackness.” Many people with such a hemorrhage die suddenly, according to Cleveland Clinic. Among those who make it to the hospital, one-third die while hospitalized. Another third survive with a disability. Tyler said the cause of the hemorrhage wasn’t clear. He went on to spend three weeks in the hospital undergoing treatment. Soon, he found himself beating the odds. He put pen to paper, continuing the movie compositions he had been working on when he suffered his aneurysm — for both “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” and “Nuremberg,” which came out last year. “It was like a cathartic kind of way to come back and it gave me a goal and a sense of where I was headed,” he said. Now, with “The