- The 1985 incident in which a bear consumed a bag of cocaine and went on the rampage.
- The film will center on an oddball assemblage of law enforcement officers.
- It lists the characteristics of a typical American black bear.
Cocaine Bear offers all the information you need if you’ve ever wondered what sets a normal American black bear apart from a coke-high American black bear. The 1985 incident in which a bear consumed a bag of cocaine and went on the rampage through a small village served as the basis for Elizabeth Banks’ upcoming black comedy. The film will center on an oddball assemblage of law enforcement officers, criminals, tourists, and teenagers that come together in a Georgia forest as the bear charges crazy!
A new video that was published on the movie’s official Twitter account illustrates how hazardous a high bear may be. It lists characteristics of a typical American black bear, such as its ability to smell up to a mile away, its ability to climb at a rate of four feet per second, and its top speed of thirty miles per hour. The aforementioned cocaine-addled bear, however, is able to “smell everything, his climbing speed increases to 100 feet per second, and his top speed is enhanced up to 75 miles per hour.” This basically means that if you’re around a bear like that, you’re just messed up! The images moved between several movie clips showing the responses of some tourists, law enforcement officials, and locals.
After reading Jimmy Warden’s script, Banks previously admitted that she performed extensive research on the 1980s American crack epidemic and the drug war and concluded that “this bear was collateral damage [in] a botched war on drugs.” I felt quite sorry for it. I had the impression that this movie would be a bear retribution tale. Despite being a black comedy, the film has undercurrents concerning both nature and the nation’s war on drugs, with the implication that “if you fu** with nature, nature will fu** with you.”
In the upcoming film, Keri Russell plays Colette Matthews, Brooklynn Prince plays Colette’s daughter, Howard is played by O’Shea Jackson Jr., Henry is played by Christian Convery Marty is played by Alden Ehrenreich, Bob is played by Isiah Whitlock Jr., Andrew C. Thornton II is played by Matthew Rhys, and Stache is played by Aaron Holliday. Actors Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Kristofer Hivju, Hannah Hoekstra, Margo Martindale, and the late Ray Liotta—who will be viewed as the story’s antagonist—additionally round out the cast. Banks, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Aditya Sood, Max Handelman, and Brian Duffield all contributed to the film’s production.
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