Peter Webber - Director
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self-confessed cinephile, Peter Webber made his first short film, The
Zebra Man, straight out of film school. He then worked as a film editor,
beginning his association with Girl with a Pearl Earring producers Andy
Paterson and Anand Tucker on Tucker’s drama debut, Saint-Ex,
starring Miranda Richardson and Bruno Ganz.
As an award-winning
documentary director his subjects ranged from Wagner to crash test dummies via a
series on the creatures of the deep oceans and The
Curse of the Phantom Limb.
Girl with a Pearl Earring, starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth, marked Webber's feature film debut in a most impressive way. The film has received numerous accolades including 3 Academy Award Nominations, 2 Golden Globe Nominations, 10 BAFTA Award Nominations and many others. Certainly an impressive debut.
Webber was then tapped by Dino de Laurentis to direct Young Hannibal: Behind the Mask. Based on Thomas Harris' upcoming new book of the same name, and starring Gaspard Ulliel, Li Gong, Rhys Ifans and Anthony Hopkins (voice), this prequel shows a young Hannibal Lechter in three different phases of his life from his tragic childhood in Lithuania during World War II to his ten years in France up to his time in America before his capture by FBI agent Will Graham in Red Dragon. The movie is currently shooting in Prague.
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