DreamWorks has preemptively purchased Lars Jacobson’s “C.O.D.” action-thriller spec and set it up with Barry Josephson of Josephson Entertainment and Neal Flaherty of Royal Prospect.

Story centers on a New York City bike messenger who becomes a puppet in an assassin’s deadly game, forced to deliver bombs to save his family’s life. A female FBI agent with a vendetta against the villain must work outside the system to catch the messenger and solve the case before it takes on global implications.

Josephson produced “Enchanted” and is currently in production on “They Came From Upstairs” for Fox. Josephson Entertainment VP Danica Radovanov will exec produce.

Jacobson also wrote, directed and produced horror thriller “Baby Blues,” with Andy Meyer also producing. That film recently secured domestic distribution with Allumination Filmworks and foreign with Epic Pictures.

Flaherty and Jacobson met last year during the filming of “Baby Blues” in Georgia and began developing “C.O.D.” together.

Jacobson’s repped by Original Artists.

Source: Variety