Peter Hewitt (director)
Peter Hewitt; Pete Hewitt (born 1962 ) is a British screenwriter, producer and director. Peter Hewitt also worked under the pseudonym " Max Magenta '.
Life
Hewitt graduated from the National Film School in the UK. His final work, the 30- minute short film, The Candy Show, won the British Academy Film Awards, the British equivalent of an Oscar in 1989 for Best Short Film. He procured by the attention of U.S. film producers who assigned him to work as a director of comedy Bill & Ted 's Bogus Journey into the Future ( Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, 1991).
2004 Hewitt wrote the screenplay for Thunderbirds, a live-action adaptation of the British Supermarionation series Thunderbirds, which was made into a film directed by Jonathan Frakes.
In 2006 he turned Zoom - Academy for Superheroes, in the play, among others, Tim Allen and Spencer Breslin. The film was but ripped from critics and also shown in Germany only briefly.
Except for the big screen Hewitt also worked on music videos and commercials.