But I had seen Altered States and Superman and the trailer for Alien and, again, The Dead Zone, and I just really liked those credits. They had done the titles for Altered States and The Dead Zone, and they were actually just finishing The Untouchables when I started to work there. When I graduated, I wasn’t ready to move to Los Angeles, although that was the suggestion that I should do that.īut I found one of the places that inspired me, R/Greenberg Associates.

Even though I was doing typography and, I think, refining my design sensibilities and learning about graphic design and typography more so than when I was an undergraduate, I still had in the back of my mind when I graduated that I was going to try to do film titles. I wanted to be a better graphic designer, so I spent three years in the graduate graphic design program at Yale. I thought that titles was a good combination of both of my lifelong interests. I was always working as a graphic designer, working my way through undergraduate school, and watching a lot of movies. I was a graphic designer, and I saw some main titles in 1985, and it occurred to me that that would be a very good mix of the two things that I was interested in. Kyle Cooper: Well, I’ve always wanted to work in the film industry. Cooper spoke at length on the telephone with Brett Homenick in a 2005 interview about his involvement with Final Wars as well as his career designing titles for some of Tinseltown’s biggest blockbusters.īrett Homenick: How’d you get started in the film industry? Cooper’s unparalleled talent, Godzilla: Final Wars (2004) director Ryuhei Kitamura tapped him and his production studio Prologue to create the main title sequence for the Big G’s 50 th anniversary film.

Cooper has widely been credited with revitalizing the craft with his main title for the hit movie Se7en in 1995.

Since the early 1990s, Kyle Cooper has been and remains one of Hollywood’s leading title designers. When Kyle Cooper imagined his name in lights, this is probably not what he had in mind.

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