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Mar 22, 2022 · Producer Kevin Messick’s Don’t Look Up journey was bookended by history-making events. On Jan. 6, 2021, as rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, Messick was in Boston preparing to film a riot scene...
- Saving “Don’t Look Up”
- “How Do You Do It Safely?”
- The New Gold Standard
- Pivoting, and Pivoting Again
“And then we all came home, like the rest of the world,” said Messick during a recent Zoom interview. “The virus had different pockets in different timelines. So at a certain point, it felt crazy to shoot in winter in Boston, and LA was safe. And then by the time we got to the summertime, LA spiked, and that’s why ‘Winning Time’ got pushed off unti...
“Usually, we would be more involved,” said Messick. “But Adam and I read scripts and watch cuts and give notes. We like to usually have a presence there, but it just wasn’t possible. You couldn’t bounce back and forth between cities or productions. The biggest challenge: We made those shows before vaccines were invented. Which seems crazy.” As a si...
The cast and crew stayed within its production bubble, putting up with eight-day quarantines and constant testing. Messick’s team worked with a mobile-lab testing company that could perform “gatekeeper tests” rather than wait 24 hours for PCR lab results. “It became a gold standard for us, and for other productions,” said Messick. “I brought them t...
“We were able to go down to Long Beach and sit there with 300 people having a blast,” said Messick, “yelling and screaming and having fun. That was a Friday-night date movie. It was a bummer when the theatrical marketplace — as great as Daisy and Sebastian are — became a calculated risk. There just weren’t a lot of opportunities for a theatrical re...
Sep 19, 2023 · 'Winning Time' executive producer Kevin Messick talks about HBO's Lakers series ending before the team's 1980s NBA dynasty began.
Sep 17, 2023 · In an exclusive interview, Winning Time executive producer Kevin Messick ( Succession) talked with Vulture about getting an advance heads-up from HBO, which allowed producers time to prepare —...
- Josef Adalian
- West Coast Editor
Mar 5, 2022 · His latest, the four-time Oscar-nominated Don’t Look Up, takes aim at our ignorance of climate change, our politics and our obsession with tech. Speaking on a panel during Deadline’s Contenders...
Mar 10, 2022 · Adam McKay’s producer partner Kevin Messick, now a best picture Oscar and Bafta nominee for Don’t Look Up, sees his role as creating the space to let the writer/director achieve his vision.
Sep 18, 2023 · In an interview with Vulture, executive producer Kevin Messick revealed that they shot the final scene with Reilly and Robinson well ahead of time, in case season two would be the final one.
