Greg Pak

Greg Pak

Greg Pak at a panel at New York University, September 25, 2011.
Born Gregory Pak
Nationality American
Area(s) Writer, director
Notable works Planet Hulk, World War Hulk, Incredible Hercules, World War Hulk: Warbound, Skaar: Son of Hulk
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Greg Pak is an American New York-based film director/comic book writer, known for his work on such books featuring the Hulk.

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Early life

Pak is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a member of the Purple Crayon improv group, and studied history at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and film at New York University.

Career

His New York University (NYU) student film, Fighting Grandpa, about his Korean grandparents, won the Gold Medal at the 25th Student Academy Awards. His short film "Asian Pride Porn", starring playwright David Henry Hwang and director Michael Kang, was licensed to Atom Films. Pak's feature film Robot Stories won 35 film festival awards. He collected his critically acclaimed screenplays in the recent book Robot Stories & More Screenplays, whose foreword was written by David Henry Hwang, and which has been used in college classes in writing, film, and Asian American studies.

Pak is a frequent writer for Marvel Comics, starting in September 2004 and signing an exclusive deal with them in July 2005.[1] He has worked on such titles as Warlock,[2] Phoenix: Endsong,[3] Phoenix: Warsong,[4] Iron Man, and The Incredible Hulk, and Dynamite Entertainment's spin-off series based on the Sci-Fi Channel's Battlestar Galactica.

2000s projects include Incredible Hercules,[5][6][7] World War Hulk: Warbound and Skaar: Son of Hulk,[8][9] all spinning-off from World War Hulk, as well as Magneto: Testament[10] and War Machine.[11][12][13] Pak is also one of the featured contributors to Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology.[14]

Works

Filmography

Bibliography

Notes

  1. ^ Greg Pak Makes His Marvel - Signs Exclusively With Publisher, Comic Book Resources, July 11, 2005
  2. ^ Warlock Stories: Greg Pak talks "Warlock", Comic Book Resources, July 18, 2004
  3. ^ Greg Pak talks "X-Men: Phoenix - Endsong", Comic Book Resources, August 20, 2004
  4. ^ It's Not Over Till She Sings: Greg Pak Talks "X-Men: Phoenix- Warsong", Comic Book Resources, June 2, 2006
  5. ^ GREEK WEEK Part I -Pak & Van Lente talk Hercules' Past, Comic Book Resources, March 17, 2008
  6. ^ GREEK WEEK Part IV- Pak & Van Lente on Herc's Past & Future, Comic Book Resources, March 20, 2008
  7. ^ Love, Olympian Style: Pak & Van Lente talk "Incredible Hercules", Comic Book Resources, September 4, 2008
  8. ^ Greg Pak on Skaar: Son of Hulk, Newsarama, March 18, 2008
  9. ^ Hulk Slash! Pak talks “Skaar: Son of Hulk”, Comic Book Resources, June 10, 2008
  10. ^ WW Philly: Pak talks "Magneto: Testament", Comic Book Resources, May 31, 2008
  11. ^ SDCC '08 - Pak & Rosemann Talk War Machine, Newsarama, July 25, 2008
  12. ^ CCI: Pak, Rosemann on "War Machine", Comic Book Resources, July 25, 2008
  13. ^ Greasing the Gears: Greg Pak Talks 'War Machine', Newsarama, November 10, 2008
  14. ^ The New Press Spring 2009 Catalog
  15. ^ Marvel Nemesis Unveiled, IGN, March 21, 2005

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Preceded by
Daniel Way		 Incredible Hulk writer
2006–2007		 Succeeded by
Jeph Loeb (New Hulk series)
Preceded by
Jeph Loeb (Hulk)		 Incredible Hulk writer
2009–2011		 Succeeded by
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