William P Shea
- Executive
- Producer
Originally from the suburbs of Boston, William Shea worked in the engineering field for several years in the Boston area. Later as business slowed down and the big dig project ended, William moved to Connecticut to pursue work in the casino business, in addition to spending time in New York City researching Asian filmography. With a strong interest in Hong Kong Films, William started looking into the genre, as he found them to be loaded with unknown talent. After a while, he started spending great amounts of time viewing and building a vast library of popular films and filmmakers from Hong Kong, China, Japan, and Korea. Later, in 2005 Shea moved to Las Vegas and began working on movie scripts for Hong Kong films. Shea was known to collaborate locally with other writers and producers in his field as well as domestic film writers. When he discussed many of his ideas with other writers, he was surprised by their reactions. Most of his ideas and story-lines had strong plots as well as potential. He has recently been contracted to write a movie screenplay that has all the financial backing set in advance. As of December 25th, 2007, he has become involved in a new project that is under development for production in the U.S. and Hong Kong, As he will serve as the screenwriter and producer. William Shea owes most of his success to Hong Kong films. As of January 2008, William P Shea writes under the name Wei Lian Shea.