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.

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

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 is in the final stages of post-production.

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

Jack has a library of completed original screenplays including Remote Control, "a tight, well constructed thriller," says . "There are some tense and exciting sequences here. The climactic twist is clever and impeccably set up. It's an ingenious narrative payoff."

 

Recently Produced Scripts

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 Forgetting Sarah Marshall

A reluctant father and his persistent wife push through the frustrating and often ridiculous world of infertility treatments.

 

REMOTE CONTROL

The Usual Suspects meets Eagle Eye

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

 

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

When a group of college kids get arrested, they find themselves trapped in a rural sheriff’s station with someone picking them off one by one - and its one of the cops...

 

Coming in August 2010

TELEPATROL - Aliens meets The Fly

Teleports are a mass transit marvel - when they work... When they don't, the company secretly sends out the Telepatrol to catch the mutations and keep it quiet. But the team is pushed to the limit when they realize that company is causing the mutations on purpose.