Brian Tyler: The Fast and the Furious 4

According to the Gorfaine-Schwartz Agency's latest roster update, Brian Tyler will follow up his intense score for The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift with new music for the fourth film in the series, which is also directed by Justin Lin. The film is yet untitled but is scheduled to hit the silver screen on June 5 next year, with Vin Diesel returning as the main star, accompanied by Paul Walker and Michelle Rodriguez. Brian Tyler is also attached to The Killing Room, a thriller about four people who take part in a psychological research study which turns out to be a terrifying classified experiment. Peter Stormare, Chloë Sevigny and Timothy Hutton star in the film which is directed by Jonathan Liebesman, for whom Tyler previously worked on Darkness Falls. As previously reported and confirmed by 20th Century Fox, Brian Tyler is also going to score big budget action spectacle Dragonball.

Harry Gregson-Williams: The Taking of Pelham 123

Harry Gregson-Williams is going to score his sixth film directed by Tony Scott: the remake of the 1974 subway hijacking drama The Taking of Pelham 123. Slated for a 2009 summer release, the new version stars Denzel Washington and John Travolta and is scripted by David Koepp (Spider-Man, Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible). Escape Artists produce with Scott Free Productions. The 1974 version of the film featured a strikingly original twelve-tone funk score by David Shire. Harry Gregson-Williams is also attached to Jerry Bruckheimer's action adventure G-Force, the X-Men spin-off Wolverine and Dan Ireland's drama Jolene. He recently recorded the score for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian in London - an extensive session report is available here.

John Debney: Hotel for Dogs

Adding yet another family comedy to his filmography, John Debney has been hired to compose the music for Hotel for Dogs, Dreamworks upcoming film version of the Lois Duncan 1971 children's book about two teenagers who secretly house nine dogs in an abandoned hotel. Thor Freudenthal, who was a second unit director on Disney's The Haunted Mansion, helms the project which sees stars Emma Roberts, Troy Gentile, Lisa Kudrow, Don Cheadle and Kevin Dillon in the main roles. Film is scheduled to open on January 23 next year. John Debney's other upcoming films include Meet Dave, Swing Vote and Old Dogs.

Elliot Goldenthal: Public Enemies

Academy Award-winning composer Elliot Goldenthal reunites with director Michael Mann, 13 years after his score for Mann's intense action thriller Heat. According to the Gorfaine-Schwartz Agency, Goldenthal is attached to Public Enemies, Mann's 1930s gangster epic starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Channing Tatum. Mann's films are usually accompanied by an eclectic soundtrack, so we can probably expect music by other creative talents in addition to the original score by Elliot Goldenthal in the final cut of the film. Mann's own company, Forward Pass, and Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions co-produce with Kevin Misher (The Interpreter). Public Enemies is expected to come out next year.

David Julyan: The Descent 2

David Julyan's dark orchestral music for the 2005 horror hit The Descent is probably his most acclaimed film score so far. He has now confirmed to Upcoming Film Scores that he will begin work on the music for the sequel later this year. The Descent 2 is written and directed by the editor of the first film, Jon Harris, who is also editing Eden Lake, another upcoming feature with music by David Julyan (he records the score for this one next week). The Descent sequel, which is scheduled to come out in 2009, is reportedly continuing the story where the first movie ended. David Julyan is also attached to a film called The Daisy Chain, an Irish thriller starring Samantha Morton. His other recent credits include Waz and Outlaw.

Mychael Danna: Stone of Destiny

Canadian composer Mychael Danna is doing the score for Stone of Destiny, directed by Charles Martin Smith, who previously worked with Danna on The Snow Walker in 2003. Produced by Infinity Features Entertainment in Canada and UK's The Mob Film Company, Stone of Destiny tells the story of Ian Hamilton, a Scottish nationalist who wanted to bring the Stone of Scone back to Scotland from Englan in the 1950s. Robert Carlyle, Kate Mara, Billy Boyd and Charlie Cox star in the film which is due out later this year. Mychael Danna is also teaming up again with Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan, doing the score for his new film Adoration. It's their ninth feature film together (not counting their episode in the 1991 film Montréal vu par...), a drama starring Scott Speedman, Rachel Blanchard and Kenneth Welsh. In addition to these two films, Mychael Danna is also attached to The Time Traveler's Wife and Passchendaele, and is co-writing the scores for Lakeview Terrace and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus with his brother, Jeff Danna.

Joel Goldsmith: Stone's War

Joel Goldsmith has two new film scores coming up. He is doing the music for Stone's War, an action thriller written and directed by Finnish filmmaker Marko Mäkilaakso, shot in Lithuania and produced by Media One Entertainment for release by The Little Film Company in June. The cast includes Andrew Tiernan and Andreas Wilson in a story about a platoon of American and Finnish soldiers who discover a frightening secret deep into the Russian woods. Joel Goldsmith is also scoring Stargate: Continuum, a Stargate movie coming out on DVD this summer, follwing Stargate: The Ark of Truth, which was released on March 11. Since the launch of the Stargate television franchise in 1997, Goldsmith has been the main composer of both Stargate SG-1 and Stargate: Atlantis. Goldsmith is working with his usual orchestrator and conductor, Nicholas Dodd, on Stargate: Continuum, which is directed by Stargate veteran Martin Wood.