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How Late Producer Jill Messick First Saw The Mega Potential Of ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Through The Eyes Of Her Son
The success of 'A Minecraft Movie' began with producer Jill Messick first noticing the fandom for the game through her son Jackson.
Around 2011, former Miramax and Lorne Michaels Entertainment exec Jill Messick was in between producing gigs (she was an EP on Baby Mama, Mean Girls, Hot Rod, and the Oscar-winning Frida), and like many parents with millennial young children, recognized her 11-year old son Jackson’s obsession with this pixelated brick-building world. McKnight connected Messick with agents Jay Baker (now at Range Media Partners) and Micah Green (now CEO, co-President of film financier and producer 30WEST). Minecraft was in development for ten years with myriad writers and filmmakers, the constant being current Warner Bros. production exec Jesse Ehrman though various administration head changes (Silverman gave way to Toby Emmerich, who was succeeded by Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy, the latter who technically greenlit the project).
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