[1] Jack Lemley was the Chief Executive of TransManche Link, the consortium that built the Channel Tunnel, which is the largest privately financed construction project in history.
[6] At Icon, he worked on various films including Maverick, Immortal Beloved, Anna Karenina, Payback, 187, and served as executive producer on the Vietnam War drama We Were Soldiers.
[8] After eleven years with Icon Productions, Lemley realized he wanted to work on projects on his own and left the company to start an independent producing career.
[9] For his first independent production, in 2002, Lemley teamed up with Ridley and Tony Scott to executive produce the medieval romance Tristan & Isolde,[10] which starred James Franco and was directed by Kevin Reynolds.
In 2005, Lemley partnered with acclaimed Russian director Timur Bekmambetov to produce the hit action thriller Wanted (starring Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy).
[21] Lemley again re-teamed with Timur Bekmambetov and Tim Burton to produce Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, released by Twentieth Century Fox on June 22, 2012, and based on the best-seller of the same name.
He remains an active member of his alma mater, serving on the advisory board for the University of Idaho, College of Business and Economics where he also spoke as commencement speaker in the Spring of 2013.