Cocaine Bear

You might be surprised to learn that a movie about a coked-out bear killing everyone it encounters in the backwoods of Georgia has deeper meaning.

“I think that if the movie took itself too seriously, then people would shrug it off,” Warden noted. The true tale was simply so absurd that in order to build off it, the script needed to be even wilder. I knew that I needed to take a departure and make the story about the cocaine bear and not the true crime, bluegrass conspiracy, or anything like that.” “I couldn’t stop reading about every angle to it,” Warden said. The bear got into the duffel containing a reported 75 pounds of cocaine, overdosed, and died. Is it the people who are doing drugs?

I felt like there was no greater metaphor for the chaos all around us than a bear who is high on cocaine,” director Elizabeth Banks says of her ...

In addition to the film’s cutting-edge technology, the bear was brought to life by motion-capture artist Allan Henry—also a stuntman and a former student of Andy Serkis. “It was so wild and out there, and it sounded like something I had to do. Martindale plays a forest ranger who gets in some trouble with the bear. In one pivotal scene, in which the bear passes out on top of Ehrenreich, Henry wore a bulky foam bodysuit to emulate the bear’s large girth. Instead, a CGI bear was created by Weta, the New Zealand–based special effects company founded by Peter Jackson—renowned for their work on The Lord of the Rings, Avatar, and Planet of the Apes franchises. You have to have that gore to balance out the ridiculousness of the situations. “The blood and guts crosses a line, and that’s part of where the humor comes in. Banks’s film takes this stranger-than-fiction tale and reimagines the bear on a coke-fueled, murderous rampage, leaving a trail of gore in its wake. “These kinds of movies need some kind of heart and tenderness, or otherwise it feels meaningless. One scene features the bear snorting coke from a severed leg. Months later, a black bear was found dead in Georgia, next to clawed-open bags of the missing drugs. So if this helps people process the last two and a half years of their life, I’ll feel great about that.

Daveed (O'Shea Jackson Jr., from left), Officer Reba (. In 1985, ex-narcotics officer Andrew Thornton (played in the movie by Matthew Rhys) brought more ...

“A lot of this is about how this bear is sort of the victim in us all. “Cocaine Bear” marries bizarre truth with bonkers action, though Banks says "everyone was just a little concerned" about a fictional scene when the children find a kilo of coke in the forest, try eating some and then spit it out comedically. The film on the whole is a subtle critique of the “Just Say No” era and the war on drugs, Warden adds. “I just need to believe that there's some truth in everything that the bear’s doing.” “It made a huge difference that we really had him there.” The beast (which earned the nickname “Pablo Escobear”) eventually was stuffed, owned for a time by country music legend Waylon Jennings and now resides in a Kentucky mall. “I got a lot more confident after that moment.” (The late Ray Liotta also has one of his last movie roles in "Cocaine Bear," as a St. Bears should not drink a bottle of Coca-Cola, but you can find that on the internet,” she says. Instead, “Cocaine Bear” veers from the original story and centers on a 500-pound coke-addled creature that terrorizes a single mom (Keri Russell), two 12-year-olds (Brooklynn Prince and Christian Convery), a pair of criminal buds (O’Shea Jackson Jr. In 1985, ex-narcotics officer Andrew Thornton (played in the movie by Matthew Rhys) brought more than 800 pounds of cocaine from Colombia into the USA via plane. “And also way funnier.”

"Cocaine Bear" screenwriter Jimmy Warden never thought the R-rated film, which includes a comedic scene of 12-year-olds doing cocaine, would be made.

And in order to warrant however many millions we were going to need to build this bear, we needed someone that was able to push the envelope in terms of tone and make sure that it was something that everybody was going to want to see. So I never thought that anybody could put cocaine in the title and have it be as massive as this movie wants to be. I think that is a story that we can continue to tell over and over again. What I learned from Phil and Chris and Aditya is that there’s a good nature to this movie as well. I guess I wouldn’t say “respectable studio.” I’m not sure it’s the right narrative, but that is kind of the truth. So there was never any question in my mind that the movie would be called “Cocaine Bear.” I think that if you asked me back then I would have been like, if it ever gets made, I assume people are probably going to want to change the name. I figured, if you start there, and people continue to read after 10 pages of 12-year-olds doing coke in the woods, then you kind of have them. I’m not sure how much of a gore fan you are, but at a certain point you cross the line and it becomes so messed up that you can’t help but laugh. And there are some things in there that, you know, if I were a betting man, I would have bet were going to get taken out. I would have been fine if somebody wanted to make this movie and call it you know, anything. Warden stumbled on the account in the mid-2010s while scrolling through Twitter, “not doing work that I should have been doing,” and instantly realized that “there was something there.” But as he explains to Variety, he also sees a promising future for “Cocaine Bear.”

Here's how, when, and where you can watch the comedy thriller Cocaine Bear, where to get tickets, and where it'll eventually be streaming.

Tag (2018): The game of tag is one that everyone is familiar with. Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) plays the role of Yankovic to perfection alongside a hysterical ensemble cast packed to the brim with celebrity cameos. No announcements in regard to if and when Cocaine Bear will receive a streaming release have not yet been made, but Peacock seems to be a likely streaming home for the dark comedy given it's a production of Universal Pictures. The horrific and bloody rampage that the bear embarks on for the film adaptation is fictional, but it also looks like a hell of an absurd good time. The rampage is fictional, and chances are the characters being pursued by the beast are wishing this story was imaginary for them too. It feels like every other week a new film based on real-life events hits either movie theaters or any of the many streaming services out there, but every once in a while, a film releases a trailer with the words "Based on a true story" in it that features a premise so bizarre and so absurd that it can't possibly be true.

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Gorey, funny and a little bit campy, this is a quick and easy watch to pass the time. Cocaine Bear is an insane ride loosely inspired by a true tale. – but at the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter when you’re having a good time. As a comedy, Cocaine Bear has some funny moments that will get a loud laugh from viewers. We won’t tell you who dies, but we can tell you that these deaths are gruesome, intense and oh-so-fun to watch. Ferguson playing a straight character for once is a joke in itself and Martindale brings such strong sass to her definite no-nonsense park ranger character.

Elizabeth Banks says her mom doesn't know what to make of her new gory comedy about a bear who eats cocaine.

“I want to see ‘Cocaine Rats,'” said Aaron Holliday, who plays a high school troublemaker in the movie. “It definitely has to be ‘Cocaine Dolphin,’” she said. “I’m taking my son and a pack of wild teenagers,” she said. “I’m taking the parents, too. “Cocaine Bear” is completely bonkers. Inspired by the true story of a bear that ate cocaine that scattered in a Florida forest when a drug trafficker’s plane crashed, “Cocaine Bear” is a gory horror comedy about a bear that goes on a killing spree while under the influence of coke.

Director Elizabeth Banks spoke to Insider about making the horror comedy that is one of the most anticipated movies of 2023.

Everything that I wanted in is in the movie, but I did pull out some gore toward the end. But because of that, there were a lot of great character beats that did end up on the cutting-room floor and they were heartbreakers. And then we recreated in Ireland the shots from the footage of the accident. But people were confused, they asked if the bear was going to be animated. The bear makes the coke better and the coke makes the bear better. The way everyone dressed, the people in the background, that came right out of the research. We had a really high blind recruit rate because people were just like "What the hell?" And in regards to what happened, we saw the necropsy report from that bear. I do not use any slow motion in the movie except for one moment, and that moment is the bear jumping into the back of the ambulance. The very first thing in terms of the CGI was the bear sneezing the cocaine, and I think we thought that was going to be the essence of the whole movie. Its heart basically burst, its liver burst, and the bear was found surrounded by the drugs that were dropped. How deep down the rabbit hole did you go in regards to what really happened?

Upcoming film Cocaine Bear arrives in cinemas tomorrow and the director shares how the bear was created in collaboration with visual effects company Weta.

"[It was a] blow by blow of the gore. "I'm a director and directors like to have a sense of control over the material – and it was really scary to me. [subscribe now](http://radiotimes.com/magazine-subscription?utm_term=evergreen-article). Wondering what to watch on TV? Cocaine Bear is released in cinemas on Friday 24th February 2023. I said this has to look like we've made a documentary of this bear. And luckily, Weta came through with flying colours." Meanwhile, star Keri Russell said that the cast had nicknamed the bear 'Cokie' on set – and she added that she was able to draw on her previous experience working with Weta a few years ago, when she had a role in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. "And he's also a stunt performer – so there was never a moment on set where if the actors were meant to be encountering the bear that we did not have Allan Henry there for everyone to have an eyeline, a physical something to push against. Banks added that although there was no bear actually present on set, she did utilise an "incredible bear performer" named Allan Henry – a veteran of the Planet of the Apes films – to help her block the action. I really had to trust Weta, who were great partners, and trust that the resources were going to be there [and] that the bear was going to be photorealistic." "I was about to embark on making a movie where the central character was never going to be on set, and I was going to have no control over it," she said.

Elizabeth Banks says that 'Cocaine Bear,' which she directed, and produced with Brownstone cofounder Max Handelman, is a direct line from 'Wet Hot American ...

“As a female filmmaker, and someone with a company that cares about centering female stories, I felt like I was being put in this box of ‘She’s got a feminist manifesto at the center of everything.’ And I just wanted to just remind people, ‘You don’t know me! “That to me was the crux of this opportunity—and to show off a little bit.” “It was impossible to know what the reaction to Cocaine Bear would be,” he says. The fact that she directed the film might even be a surprise to many of those millions of people who watched the trailer. “I do bring a lot of experience to the table—I’m not floundering around.” Even in that regard, it’s easy for Hollywood to lean on blockbuster superhero movies or other franchises that have a proven track record of pulling people into theaters. “It’s been a chaotic past several years that has hovered over our entire country and culture,” Handelman says. But when Thornton jumped out of the plane, his parachute malfunctioned, and he fell to his death on a driveway in a residential neighborhood in Knoxville, Tenn. A film as outlandish as Cocaine Bear is truly best experienced in a theater full of strangers. “In the true story, the bear dying is really sad. But I’m slowly becoming more confident that people are going to like it.” All she would tell me is that the premise was exactly what you’d expect from the title.

Universal Pictures was willing to take a chance on a screenplay with an outrageous premise: a bear running wild on cocaine.

You might be surprised to learn that a movie about a coked-out bear killing everyone it encounters in the backwoods of Georgia has deeper meaning.

“I think that if the movie took itself too seriously, then people would shrug it off,” Warden noted. The true tale was simply so absurd that in order to build off it, the script needed to be even wilder. I knew that I needed to take a departure and make the story about the cocaine bear and not the true crime, bluegrass conspiracy, or anything like that.” “I couldn’t stop reading about every angle to it,” Warden said. The bear got into the duffel containing a reported 75 pounds of cocaine, overdosed, and died. Is it the people who are doing drugs?

Cocaine Bear screenwriter Jimmy Warden says he's already toying with the idea of sequels (plural!) to the stimulant-fueled thriller.

creating a photo-realistic, drugged-out black bear) and a script that early on sees two 12-year-olds dare each other to try cocaine, Warden said he didn’t exactly expect this project to get the studio treatment. “Cocaine Bear in Space is where we would probably end.” “I think that is a story that we can continue to tell over and over again. What happened is a product of circumstance and everybody else’s poor decisions,” Warden explains. In fact, he tells Based on a true story, Elizabeth Banks’ latest directorial effort

Elizabeth Banks told Insider she took out a violent scene because she didn't want people to "throw up" leaving the theater.

And don't worry horror fans, there's more than enough gore in the movie. It's coming to a close, and I wanted people to leave happy and not be freaking out and wanting to throw up." "We also filmed his death, but I took it out."

The parachutist, a former Kentucky narcotics investigator, had fallen to his death in a backyard in Knoxville, Tennessee. His unmanned airplane crashed into a ...

“The issue of the Ainu was seen as a taboo, something that should not be touched.” That was in 2009, just a year after Japan’s parliament finally passed a resolution to recognize the Ainu as an indigenous people, following decades of pressure. “Imagine if The Banshees of Inisherin had a big bear just running through biting that guy’s fingers off.” “For the scale of that movie, it’s a huge hit. The risk was: I was never going to have the lead character of the movie on the set of the movie,” Banks says. “We thought at some point, someone was going to say, ‘Well you can’t call it Cocaine Bear.’ You have to call it ‘A Walk in the Woods.’” After an initial taste, the bear goes after more cocaine with all the zeal of Yogi pursuing a picnic basket. It just means you have to swing the bat a little harder,” Lord says. “What’s funny is that we thought it would be difficult because of the subject matter. “That was the goal.” “You have to demonstrate theatricality to get the greenlight. “I’m the bear who ate cocaine,” reads one of the film’s official tweets. The movie, itself, is like a meme sprung to life — a kind of spiritual heir to Snakes on a Plane crossed with a Paddington Bear fever dream.

With a title like Cocaine Bear, you'd be hard-pressed to think that the new movie by director Elizabeth Banks (Pitch Perfect 2) isn't worth the watch.

As critics underscore, the great thing about Cocaine Bear is that its title already provides a pretty clear picture of what you can expect from the adventure. Cocaine Bear tells the insane story of what happens after a massive shipment of the drug from the title falls from a plane mid-flight, in the middle of a forest. As the early reactions from the crazy story (based on real events) come in, we have confirmation of what we already suspected: the action-comedy is a wild trip that is as unhinged as you’d expect it to be and delivers exactly what it promises.

A stuffed bear passed through the hands of Waylon Jennings and a mysterious Chinese collector before winding up in a Kentucky souvenir shop that renamed it ...

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Let us know in the comments. You’ll see an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists, and teens converge in a Georgia forest where a bear has ingested a staggering amount of cocaine and gone on a coke-fueled rampage for more blow. The answer depends on where you live. Will Cocaine Bear be on Netflix Outside the United States? Quickly becoming one of the most anticipated new movie releases of 2023 is Cocaine Bear, directed by Elizabeth Banks. When will Cocaine Bear be on Netflix US?

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[He wrote about “Cocaine Bear” and other nature-bites-back films on his Normal Theater blog](https://www.normaltheater.com/118/Film-CULTure#bites). They are 1981’s “Wild Beasts” (about a zoo where the water supply becomes contaminated with PCP) and 2020’s “Psycho Ape” (about a killer gorilla that escapes from a zoo and goes on a murdering spree). We love it whenever we can bring in talent associated with the film, to have a conversation about how it was made.” It seems to be wired into us as a species, no matter where we live or our cultural backgrounds. Saturday](https://normaltheater.com/). “It’s a lovely chance to peel back the curtain a little bit.

'Cocaine Bear' filmmaker Elizabeth Banks caught up with Deadline to discuss her pitch for the horror-comedy, her plans for the future and more.

Yell out.” It was just so fun that that was how I was able to get the performance, was just describing you being eaten alive. I like to go to the theater and be entertained. I want everybody to be excited about the movie that we’re about to make. I mean, the combination of Keri Russell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Margo Martindale, the three of them got on like a house on fire. I’m a husband grieving the loss of my wife and trying to connect with my son. I like to be on; I like to be up in everybody’s business on set. So when I say this movie was risky, when I say that I was scared of it…Look, I can bring great actors to set. BANKS: I’m proud to say that PETA did reach out to us at the very beginning to ask how it was going to work. The rampaging bear on cocaine was a great hook, but I knew that the opportunity here was to make something with these grounded characters that the audience would fall in love with. I was in love with them on the page, and then I got this incredible cast, and that’s what really kept me invested the whole time. I’m getting older, and I want to stay relevant and be in the conversation.” It’s definitely rare to read something that you think, “Oh, I can’t wait to commit two and a half years of my life to this.” [Laughs] You’ve got to really feel that there’s some passion behind it, and I just fell in love with the characters in this script.

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This image released by Universal Pictures shows Keri Russell in a scene from “Cocaine Bear,” directed by Elizabeth Banks. Pat Redmond/Universal Pictures via ...

“For the scale of that movie, it’s a huge hit. The risk was: I was never going to have the lead character of the movie on the set of the movie,” Banks says. “Cocaine Bear” is here to party. Nothing, it turned out, could cut through all the noise like “Cocaine Bear.” “Cocaine Bear” is here to be bold. “We thought at some point, someone was going to say, ‘Well you can’t call it ‘Cocaine Bear.’ You have to call it ‘A Walk in the Woods.'” “That was the goal.” The movie, itself, is like a meme sprung to life — a kind of spiritual heir to “Snakes on a Plane” crossed with a Paddington Bear fever dream. It just means you have to swing the bat a little harder,” Lord says. “I’m the bear who ate cocaine,” reads one of the film’s official tweets. At a time when much in Hollywood can feel pre-packaged, the makers of “Cocaine Bear” think it can be an untamed exception. Yes, “Cocaine Bear” is a real movie.

Not since Snakes on a Plane has a title promised so much, but despite a great cast the plot is too tame.

There is also no bear behavioural expert, spurious or otherwise, to talk us through what happens to the ursine brain on cocaine, ideally with wall charts and diagrams. But is this film, like that Samuel L Jackson vehicle, also fated to be blown off-course by the hot air of its own hype? Once upon a time, deep in the woods by Georgia’s Chattahoochee River, a bear stumbled upon a cartel’s stash, ingested $2m worth of cocaine and …

Elizabeth Banks has promised her viewers no more than a bear on drugs, and a bear on drugs is what they get.

But the main event is the cocaine bear, and the meager humans only distract from her might. What that poor creature did before keeling over is a mystery, but Jimmy Warden’s script imagines a bacchanal of carnage around that event, retaining only the location (a national park in Georgia) and the name of the drug runner who caused the incident, Andrew C. The true story of the cocaine bear is relatively mundane—after drug smugglers dropped their latest shipment from Colombia in the woods, a dead black bear was found with some 75 pounds of cocaine in its system, and was eventually stuffed and mounted. If blockbuster-level gore is what you’re after, Cocaine Bear delivers—I was impressed with how gleefully gross Banks gets at times, dropping severed limbs from the sky and strewing plenty of intestines on the ground. This project does not skimp on its main attraction, but it does seem unsure of what to put around it, throwing a variety of hapless characters in the mix and arming them mostly with indifferent comedy in the face of some truly gnarly violence. I’m probably the fool for trying to summon some profundity from these bloodstained reels; Banks has promised her viewers no more than a cocaine bear, and a cocaine bear is what they get, all growly and crazed and rendered with very expensive-looking CGI.

Good news: The movie with a coked-out bear is pretty good and 1980s kids especially will enjoy the kills and hilarious thrills of 'Cocaine Bear.'

[Ray Liotta](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2022/05/26/ray-liotta-dies-star-goodfellas-field-of-dreams/9943257002/) plays a St. But the bear is more underdog than serial killer in general – honestly, there’s a lot of gnarly horror that’s not really her fault. The [“Citizen Kane”](https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2016/11/11/citizen-kane-75th-anniversary-greatest-movie-ever/93584442/) of coked-out bear movies is not perfect by any stretch but like its furry star, the film is scrappy and hungry while owning its throwback absurdity. “Cocaine Bear” is a movie with many instances of dismemberment, bullet wounds, clawed buttocks and gory death – and almost as many subplots. The real animal overdosed and died – not so much in the movie version. Duffel bags of the stuff rained down on a Georgia national park, and thus Cocaine Bear was born.

Truth-based tale of an animal on a drug-fuelled rampage is gonzo-horror fun until the buzz wears off.

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To the extent wandering around the woods being menaced by an unconvincing bear doesn’t cost much either, even a modicum of success will probably unleash a Cocaine Bear Cinematic Universe. Exploitation fare has its place, and nobody can accuse “Cocaine Bear” of taking itself too seriously. as a cop seeking the same; and Margo Martindale as a park ranger with amorous designs on a visiting biologist (Jesse Tyler Ferguson). As we’ve witnessed in other movies that employ movie magic to replicate present-day animals (as opposed to, say, monsters or dinosaurs), the bear might be unstoppable, but shoddy CGI renderings can halt a movie in its tracks. “Bear” doesn’t achieve that level of wit, but it does ratchet up the gore factor with limbs occasionally flying in all directions, those body parts looking a whole lot more realistic than the bear itself. The answer lies somewhere in between, as director Elizabeth Banks conjures bursts of absurdist energy and humor without delivering anything approaching a sustained rush.

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In the cinema, most viewers will wish that it was wittier, faster, and more willing to fulfil the gonzo potential of its in-your-face title. In short, the bits with a bear in them are a lot better than the bits that don't have a bear in them. Rather than focusing on being outrageous and entertaining, Banks and Warden focus on sappy musings about the importance of being a caring parent and a loyal friend. And there are a lot more of the latter than the former. But she and her fiancé soon notice that the bear is "demented", and they try desperately to make sense of the ursine code of conduct: "If it's black, fight back. Once Banks has demonstrated that she is not afraid to kill off endearing characters in the most gleefully gory way, she moves on to a montage of 1980s anti-drugs adverts, which establishes the period setting, and suggests that she has some political satire in mind.

If only this Pablo Escobear of a movie had snorted enough to stay up later and write a better plot.

Set during the Reagan-era “Just Say No” period, “Cocaine Bear” hopes to remark on the demonization of drugs and it also seems to have something to say about how humans misunderstand the balance of nature. “Cocaine Bear” is like a dull butter knife against those two. “Jane,” the opening song, is an homage to ”Wet Hot American Summer,” which Banks co-starred in and had the same Jefferson Starship opening tune. There’s a reference to Pines Mall, which is a little nod to “Back to the Future,” but who really cares? Banks and screenwriter Jimmy Warden have created a mashup of Quentin Tarantino bloodfests, Sam Raimi’s scare tactics and the Coen brothers’ absurdity. If you think it’s hysterical to see a bear do a bump off a severed leg stump, by all means, the movie theater is this way.