Succession
2018
Search results
Kevin Messick (born August 21, 1966) is an American film producer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Picture for the films Vice and Don't Look Up. Selected filmography. Surviving the Game (1994) Batman Forever (1995) The Babysitter (1995) Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997) A Lot like Love (2005) The Answer Man (2009)
- Producer
- Jill Messick
- August 21, 1966 (age 57), California, U.S.
Jan 12, 2024 · Find Kevin J. Messick's articles, email address, contact information, Twitter and more.
Kevin J. Messick was born on 21 June 1966 in California, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Don't Look Up (2021), Vice (2018) and Succession (2018).
- Producer, Writer, Executive
- June 21, 1966
- Kevin J. Messick
- 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...
Mar 22, 2022 · On Jan. 6, 2021, as rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, Messick was in Boston preparing to film a riot scene incited by Jennifer Lawrence’s disaffected graduate student, Kate Dibiaski.
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.
Mar 5, 2022 · March 5, 2022 10:43am. Adam McKay is known for, among other things, his blistering satires, Vice and The Big Short among them. His latest, the four-time Oscar-nominated Don’t Look Up, takes aim at...
