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Steve Wang (王孫杰, Wáng​ Sūnjié)[1] is a Taiwanese-born American make-up artist and filmmaker. He and his brother Michael Wang served as show-runners of Kamen Rider Dragon Knight.

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. Some of his most notable work was designing props for the hero suits Michael Keaton wore in the Tim Burton Batman films as well as creature and costume work on the Preadator, Beetlejuice and Hellboy. [2]

He has received great praise for his two film adaptations of the manga superhero, Guyver (The Guyver and Guyver: Dark Hero). Another project which drew attention to him was the direct to video movie, Drive, which starred Mark Dacascos & Kadeem Hardison. He also made independent films such as Kung Fu Rascals, based on a series of short films he did years before. He and his brother Michael Wang, an award-winning commercials director, were also hired to work on Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight, a second attempt at reviving the Kamen Rider Series in the United States, after Saban's Masked Rider. They wrote, produced, and directed as the "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.

Personal Life[]

  • Wang has been married to his wife Miyo Nakamura[3] since 2018.[4]

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