Steve Wang
- Known for
- Directing
- Place of birth
- Taiwan
Biography
Steve Wang (Chinese: 王孫杰) 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.
Movies with Steve Wang
- Arena 1989 · ★ 5.2
- Wolfman's Got Nards 2018 · ★ 7.7
- Invasion Earth: The Aliens Are Here 1988 · ★ 3.4
- Monster Squad Forever! 2007 · ★ 7.4
- Behind the Mask: The Batman Dead End Story 2015 · ★ 7.8
- Kung Fu Rascals 1992 · ★ 8.0
- Robot Dracula 2026 · ★ 2.0
- Kung Fu Rascals 1985
- Drive: The Force Behind The Storm 2000
Movies directed by Steve Wang
- The Guyver 1991 · ★ 5.5
- Drive 1997 · ★ 6.2
- Guyver: Dark Hero 1994 · ★ 5.8
- Kung Fu Rascals 1992 · ★ 8.0
- Sirens of the Deep 1998 · ★ 9.0
- Kung Fu Rascals 1985
- Code 9 1989