Jack has a library of original scripts and recently teamed up with Hong Kong based Celestial Pictures to produce his screenplay Remote Control. The thriller will be shot in Mandarin - with all non-Chinese language rights retained by Messitt.

Messitt's screenplay Trust was produced by TF1 International. The thriller starring Jamie Luner (Melrose Place, All My Children) recently debuted on Lifetime and Lifetime Movie Network, Movie Central and the numerous TF1 networks throughout international markets.

He recently finished the script Kaloyev, a drama for Bigfoot Entertainment based on the actual events surrounding the 2001 Uberlingen airline disaster. Jack also served as Story Consultant on Bigfoot's feature film Irreversi, which filmed in Hong Kong and will debut at AFM later this year.

Working together with manga publishing giant Tokyopop, Messitt wrote the screenplay and is attached to direct the adaptation of the graphic novel 12 days.

Messitt was the co-Writer of Midnight Movie - Winner of the Best Feature Film at the 2008 Chicago Horror Film Festival.

 

Recently Produced Scripts

REMOTE CONTROL - Writer - Celestial Pictures (Currently In Pre-Production in China)

TRUST - Writer - TF1 International

MIDNIGHT MOVIE - Director/Writer - Bigfoot Entertainment

IRREVERSI - Story Consultant - Bigfoot Entertainment

 

Selected Available Scripts

ADVENTURES IN BABYMAKING

She's Having a Baby meets Knocked Up

A reluctant father and his persistent wife navigate the frustrating and often ridiculous world of infertility.

 

REMOTE CONTROL

The Usual Suspects meets Eagle Eye

An insurance underwriter intentionally gets himself in trouble with the mob in order to launch an elaborate revenge plot against the man responsible for destroying his family.

 

TELEPATROL

Minority Report meets The Fly

A crack and hush-hush security team, the Telepatrol is sent to catch teleport mutations created by this new mass-transit marvel. What they do not know is that they are being played and have to figure out by whom before the system is launched worldwide.

 

12 DAYS - Based on the graphic novel by June Kim

Juno meets Brokeback Mountain

When her best friend dies in a honeymoon car accident, Jackie decides the best way to honor her former lover is to is to drink her ashes in the next 12 days.

 

THE BODY

Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope meets Fatal Attraction

With a dead body lying in their coffee table trunk, a couple on the edge of a divorce tries to put on a good face for their friends and family during a crowded party; but things start to unravel as it becomes apparent that the body in the trunk is the wife's secret lover - her husbands best friend.

 

FRIDAY, BLOODY FRIDAY

Assault on Precinct 13 meets Friday the 13th

A police station should be one of the safest places on earth, but when a college football star and his friends are arrested for smoking marijuana, a small town Sheriff's station turns into a night of terror when they are trapped inside with a psycho cop picking them off one by one.

 

Coming Soon

MINOR DETAILS

The Town meets Run, Lola, Run

To save his brother from his gambling debts, a bar owner is pulled into a scheme to rig an NBA game. The plan to kidnap the Bull's best player goes terribly wrong, then flawlessly right, then horribly wrong again because of seemingly insignificant details and the butterfly effect.