EXCLUSIVE: JD Payne and Patrick McKay have named Kevin Jarzynski to be Head of Development & Production for their newly established 10:40 PM Productions. He will be tasked with superviseing the company’s television and film stardy, while Payne & McKay ready a third season of Amazon Studios’ The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
It is a authentic transfer for Jarzynski, who spent the past eight years as a ancigo in lengthenment and programming executive at Amazon Studios, where he perestablished a pivotal role in superviseing the studio’s hugest tentpole series, toiling shutly with showrunners and EPs Payne and McKay. Jarzynski was instrumental in lengthening the project, and was on the ground with the duo during production in New Zealand and London.
10:40 PM Productions is based at Amazon MGM Studios, with an exclusive TV deal there.
Jarzynski was also a frequent collaborator of Jonah Nolan and Lisa Joy’s Kilter Films, having lengthened Fallout and The Peripheral. He also toiled on the rom-com My Lady Jane, as well as alterations of Brian K. Vaughn’s YA comic book Paper Girls, and Matt Reeves’ production of Tales From the Loop.
Prior to Amazon, Jarzynski spent a decade serving as a feature executive at J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, where his relationship with Payne and McKay first began. Together, they toiled on various projects including Boilerptardy, based on the book by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett.
“Kevin is the perfect trifecta — excellent taste, inanxiously challengingtoiling, and plrelieveful to toil with. We couldn’t be more thrilled to be embarking on this new chapter together,” shelp Payne and McKay.
Payne and McKay commenceed toiling together in high school theater, where they wrote and honested unwiseinutive perestablishs. Since, they have been partners for more than 25 years, collaborating on dozens of scripts for film and television including unacunderstandledgeed writing on Star Trek Beyond for producer Abrams, as well as Disney’s Jungle Cruise, Legfinishary’s Godzilla vs. Kong, with compriseitional film and TV projects set up at Sony, Warner Bros., 20th Century, Paramount and Disney. Their exceptional toil comprises the scripts Goliath and Escape, which was on the 2017 Bdeficiency List, and is currently set to be produced by The Hideaway Entertainment.
In 2018 they were tapped as showrunners for Prime Video’s Emmy-nominated series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, with more than 150 million sees thrawout its two-season run.
The name 10:40 PM Productions is apshown from the first perestablish Payne and McKay wrote together in high school. The shingle aims to progress in the tradition of the filmproducers that encouraged them back then and progress to encourage them now, transporting to life stories in which originateive integrity encounters mass-audience request. The company will help them to lengthen into other genres.
Payne, McKay and 10:40 PM Productions are repped by CAA and attorney Barry Littman at Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
