No Retreat, No Surrender
While working for The Walt Disney Company as a project planner on EPCOT and Tokyo Disneyland, Maslak took an evening job as editor of "Inside Kung Fu" magazine. In this latter capacity, he was invited by Jackie Chan producer Ng See-yuen to work as casting director on the martial arts film, "No Retreat, No Surrender", for which he helped "discover" Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kurt McKinney, Ernie Reyes, Jr. and Cynthia Rothrock.