Steve Wang

Steve Wang is an award-winning makeup artist and filmmaker.

Biography

Born in Taiwan, he and his parents moved to the US when he was 9. 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 two film adaptations of the manga superhero, Guyver (The Guyver and Guyver: Dark Hero). He also made independent films such as Kung Fu Rascals, based on a series of 8mm short films he did years before.

External links

Interviews

Drive

Fan Site

Kung Fu Cinema - Review

"Without a single reservation, Drive is the number one American martial arts movie of the 20th century."

First Look Library - Trailer

Exhilarated Despair - Screenwriter Scott Phillips' behind the scenes stories

"As for Blade II, Guillermo del Toro told Steve Wang that he took a copy of Drive to Prague with him to use as reference while shooting, and that he lifted the stun-baton fight (when Blade is in the bad guys' lair at the end) from it!

Now, the Rush Hour stuff is a little more insidious, in my book. Just lines of dialogue here and there lifted not-quite verbatim, but close enough that I doubt it was coincidence. I try to tell myself it's 'just a little tribute,' but the way it's been done seems more like a f**k-you than an homage. I mean, it's not like Drive isn't full of little references to other things, so who knows? But Brett Ratner did tell Kadeem Hardison that he had seen Drive at an early test screening, and that it 'influenced' Rush Hour -- and that if it had been released theatrically, he wouldn't have been able to make RH. So you do the math..."

Guyver: Dark Hero

Bio Weapons - Fan Site for both Guyver films

Japan Hero - Review "After seeing how the Guyver moves in this film, you start to wonder who would win between Steve Wang's Guyver or Sam Raimi's Spider-Man..."

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