Tyler Bates never planned to become Hollywood’s go-to guy for comic book movies. When he was young, the man responsible for scoring some of the biggest adaptations of the last decade or so – Watchmen, 300, Guardians Of The Galaxy and Deadpool 2 among them – was only really into the comics put out by KISS. It seems surprising when considering that Tyler’s CV is a nerd’s paradise – even movies he’s worked on not based on comic books, such as John Wick and Dawn Of The Dead, certainly have a foot in that world. When greeting Kerrang! for this interview, he is wearing a Punisher T‑shirt, a souvenir from the Netflix series which he scored. However, rather than a grand plan on his part, a lot of these accomplishments have been the result of people simply really, real...