FINALLY, A MOVIE THAT MAKES BIKE MESSENGERS THE TERRORISTS
- By Devin Faraci
- Published 10/21/2009
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Everybody hates bike messengers. First of all, the profession attracts douchebags. Second of all, they're a hazard on the road to drivers and pedestrians alike. Third of all, they always smell. There hasn't been a bike messenger movie in years; I'm thinking the last bike messenger movie I can think of (the only bike messenger movie?) is Quicksilver. But now there's a brand new film that tackles the stinky, annoying subject of bike messengers, and it appropriately casts them as the villains!
Well, sort of. And by 'well, sort of' I mean well, sort of brand new and well, sort of casts them as the villains. There's this script called C.O.D. (as in Cash On Delivery), and it was actually bought by Paramount/Dreamworks in 2008. Lars Jacobson wrote that one, but now Paramount has hired Carl Ellsworth to tackle the story. Ellsworth wrote Last House on the Left (the remake) and Red Dawn (the remake).
C.O.D. finds a bike messenger who is being forced by mysterious bad guys to plant three bombs, lest they plant a bomb on his family. The messenger must not only defeat the bad guys, he must evade a whole nation looking out for him - this sounds like about the least original story idea I've heard in a long time, which means it has mid-level studio programmer written all over it.
via the Hollywood Reporter
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Comment #1 (Posted by stupid douchebag messenger)
you'd smell too if you rode a bike from 8-6 every day with no break time. you'd be grumpy too if you had to deal with everyone hating you all the time, cabbies trying to run you over and pedestrians walking around with their heads up their asses then acting like you're the bad guy because they decided to jump into the street without looking. yeah, messengers are terrible terrible people, oh the horrors to which they subject the urban populace. get real, stop making blanket assumptions about people, use a little brain power and trying thinking about things more and understanding things.
Comment #2 (Posted by Another stupid douchebag messenger)
@ author: Its funny, your the one who sounds the most like a douche bag. When one sees their friend get hit by a cabbie running a red and the police let the cabbie go, when one gets slammed into by a pedestrian popping out between two cars, jaywalking, when one has to eat a crappy lunch in elevators because they have no time to stop, when one see the joke paycheck they get for risking their life ALL DAY... Dont be surprised if you catch a yell and a glare when you step out in traffic with your blackberry glued to your face.
Its funny it looks like the messenger is the one getting terrorize.
The picture you put up is from a hothead who attacked a messenger for a trivial reason. He proceeded to get a baseball bat from his car with intent to continue the attack before people managed to subdue him. Look up the name Darcy Allen Shepard if you want to know how poorly messengers are treated...
BTW the movie industry ( at least in NYC where i work ) would not function without us. Cant really email the master from the production office for the new White Collar episode now can we? Wise up...
Why dont i get a better job?
Because i love it, its the best job in the world. But you'll never understand that feeling.
I had i gun pulled on me when I got cut off on a rainy day and told the driver to watch out...
Every messenger has storys like that. While we watch our friends die. You hate us.
