Steve Wang

Steve Wang

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Biography

Steve Wang (Chinese: 王孫杰[1]) is a make-up artist and filmmaker. Born in Taiwan, he and his parents moved to the US when he was nine. His greatest inspirations were the tokusatsu superhero TV shows Ultraman and Kamen Rider, as well as Hong Kong kung fu films including Master of the Flying Guillotine. As a veteran makeup artist and creature designer, Steve has worked with fellow veterans before him including Stan Winston, Rick Baker and Dick Smith. He has received great praise for his film adaptation of the manga superhero Guyver in 1994 called Guyver: Dark Hero.[citation needed] Another project which drew attention to him was the direct to video movie, Drive, which starred Mark Dacascos and Kadeem Hardison. He also made independent films such as Kung Fu Rascals, based on a series of 8 mm short films he did years before. He and his brother Michael Wang, an award-winning commercials director, have recently been hired to work on Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight (an adaptation of Kamen Rider Ryuki), a second attempt at reviving the Kamen Rider Series in the United States, after Saban's Masked Rider of 1995. They write, produce, and direct as "The Wang Brothers". Steve Wang designed a sculpture depicting Sarah Kerrigan (The Queen of Blades), a character from the Starcraft Universe in 2012. The sculpture was placed at the Blizzard Entertainment Office in Versailles, France the same year. He has also made statues of Tryndamere and Ryze, two champions from League of Legends, for Riot Games that same year.

Career

1992
Kung Fu Rascals
Kung Fu Rascals as Chen Chow Mein
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1988
Invasion Earth: The Aliens Are Here
Invasion Earth: The Aliens Are Here as Japanese Tourist #2
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2015
2007
Monster Squad Forever!
1997
Drive
Drive as Director
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1994
Guyver: Dark Hero
Guyver: Dark Hero as Director, Screenplay
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1992
Kung Fu Rascals
Kung Fu Rascals as Director, Writer
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1991
The Guyver
The Guyver as Director
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