Soon after, he landed an agent and made his feature film directorial debut with Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey.
Although not as big a success as the original, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, the movie made a profit.
[1] Hewitt returned to the U.K. to film The Borrowers, loosely based on a children's novel by Mary Norton of the same name.
(1999), then tried his hand at TV work again with The Princess of Thieves (2001), filmed in Romania but featuring a mostly British cast, including a young Keira Knightley as Robin Hood's daughter, Gwyn.
His paternal cousin Simon Hewitt was a longtime animatronic designer for Jim Henson's Creature Shop until it permanently closed in 2005.