Cocaine Bear (movie of real life story to be directed by Elizabeth Banks)

PlainDealer wrote: ↑ Warning: animal lovers may find the following story disturbing.

Back in 1985, a drug smuggler parachuted out of a plane with about $14 million worth of cocaine on his person. Although he was a former paratrooper, something went wrong and he fell to his death, winding up on the driveway of a Knoxville, Tennessee resident.

The smuggler apparently didn’t have all of the drugs on him. About 60 miles away in Georgia near the site of where his plane crashed, a 175-pound black bear was found dead surrounded by 40 opened plastic containers containing remnants of coke. A post mortem was performed on the animal, and the medical examiner found about 70 pounds of cocaine in its stomach. He said, "There isn't a mammal on the planet that could survive that. Cerebral hemorrhaging, respiratory failure, hyperthermia, renal failure, heart failure, stroke. You name it, that bear had it."

If you believe that tall tales deserve to be made into movies, you’re in luck. Elizabeth Banks decided this story would be perfect for her second directorial effort, and it was just announced that Keri Russell, Ray Liotta, Alden Ehrenreich, O'Shea Jackson, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson would a part of the cast. No details of what the plot of the movie is going to be, but a story with a coked-out bear could go in all sorts of different directions. Stay tuned.

https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-a ... f-cocaine/

https://kyforky.com/blogs/journal/cocaine-bear

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/coca ... 235010081/

Cashing in on a payday. Go Liotta!

This is starting to sound like a horror comedy.

https://deadline.com/2022/05/elizabeth- ... 235014277/

Elizabeth Banks’ next movie as a director, Cocaine Bear, will be hitting theaters on February 24, 2023, Universal said Monday.

The film stars Keri Russell (The Americans), Margo Martindale (The Americans), Ray Liotta (The Many Saints of Newark), Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story), O’Shea Jackson Jr. (Straight Outta Compton), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family), Kristofer Hivju (Game of Thrones), Kahyun Kim (American Gods), Christian Convery (Sweet Tooth), Brooklynn Prince (The Florida Project) and newcomer Scott Seiss.

Cocaine Bear is inspired by the true story of a drug runner’s 1985 plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it. The movie finds an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists, and teens converging in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound apex predator has ingested a staggering amount of cocaine and gone on a coke-fueled rampage for more blow … and blood.

Cocaine Bear is the only studiowide entry to date on February 24, debuting in the wake of Disney’s The Marvels on February 17 and ahead of Paramount’s Dungeons & Dragons on March 3.

Pretty good ursine pixels YMMV (RIP Ray Liotta)



Students compare and contrast

Looks like my kind of wacky stupidity…February 24th can’t get here quickly enough!

I love it when advertisers have a sense of humour.

I saw that trailer and I thought it was a fake trailer. Don’t tell me this was a real movie.

I don’t feel bad for the parajumper smuggler falling to his death onto someone’s drive way.

Wooooow!

Cast & crew featurette (contains a few clips not in the trailer)



Elizabeth Banks gives behind-the-scenes insight on the making of the movie

UrbanPoet wrote: ↑

Wooooow!

Well Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyt!!!

It looks like a fun movie.

Like Sharknado.

This game is kind of twisted, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't have a good time playing it...

https://www.cocainebear.movie/game/

Looks like critics are going with the flow but will audiences follow

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cocaine_bear

Obvious comparison, higher opening gross and lower budget than Snakes on a Plane (but that was decade and a half ago)

So I finally got together with friends and went to see this. The consensus was this movie is great! Well, the parts with the bear mauling people were, at least.

Elizabeth Banks doesn’t hold back and stages some pretty decent kills. The ambulance chase that’s featured in the commercials and trailers results in some carnage that I haven’t seen in any Friday the 13th, Halloween, or animal-goes-berserk movie. The final kill by the bear is particularly graphic and will be a treat for fans of nasty on-screen deaths. Just for good measure, Banks throws in people getting maimed and killed by other people with one particular bit producing a pretty good gag.

Several of the positive reviews I read talked about how the characters are well developed and create emotional investment. I have to wonder if those reviewers are comparing CB to Friday the 13th Part V or Halloween 5 where you don’t give a flying toss about any of the characters. CB is very clearly trying to give the characters some depth, but the script is pretty second rate so I just couldn’t care about them as much as the film wanted me to. In fact, most scenes without the bear tended to drag, making me really want things to speed up to the next mauling.

A few critics said the film needs to be wackier, to take more chances like Malignant did. I have to agree…for a movie about a bear going on a cocaine-fueled killing spree, it’s strangely grounded. It’s nowhere near as bonkers as the marketing wants you to believe, so this is another case of the advertising being better than the film.

With the cocaine bear’s strange posthumous history, I think there’s a good documentary to be made. This movie tries hard to wrap a fictional story around the real life incident but is let down by a weak script.

Cheapie knock off cash grab coming this year

Watched it last night, it was alright but forgettable. There was some potential there, but overall I didn't feel satisfied by the end of it.