Cocaine Bear is inspired by Jimmy Warden’s unnamed screenplay and had been created by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who still filmed The Lego Film.
Cocaine Bear is Banks’ third movie, following Charlie’s Angels in 2019 as well as Pitch Perfect 3 throughout 2015.
Keri Russell, O’Shea Jackson, Jr., Christian Convery, Alden Ehrenreich, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Brooklynn Prince, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Kristofer Hivju, Hannah Hoekstra, Aaron Holliday, Margo Martindale, and Ray Liotta feature throughout Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear.
About the Film
“Influenced mostly by the 1985 real story of a narcotic runner’s fatal accident, absent cocaine, and indeed the black bear something which consumed it, one such wild comedy drama uncovers an oddball cluster of police officers, lawbreakers, visitors, and teenagers colliding in a Georgia vegetation where such a 500-pound top predator has consumed an astounding quantity of cocaine and disappeared on a coke-fueled warpath for further blast… and blood,” the film’s summary interprets.
Cast and Crew in the Film
Keri Russell of Such Americans features mostly in film, as does her spouse Matthew Rhys, Margo Martindale, O’Shea Jackson Jr, Alden Ehrenreich, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
It also includes one of Goodfellas star Ray Liotta’s final film appearances, as he died in May while filming Dangerous Waters in the Dominican Republic.
Main Story Behind the Scene
The cocaine consumed by that predator was dumped from an aircraft in 1985 by gang member Andrew Thornton, the heir of rich Kentucky equine ranchers.
Thornton, a defense prosecutor, and illicit drugs officer were on a crack cocaine mission from Colombia in either a Cessna and also were dumping parcels off within northern Georgia.
Thornton died after he leaped out of the aircraft and “struck his head just on tail of the airplane while failing to deploy his paraglider, in accordance with the Georgia Bureau of Investigations.
Thornton was carrying night vision goggles, a Kevlar jacket, and Designer footwear before his body was uncovered in a residential driveway in Knoxville, Tennessee.
3 months following Thornton’s funeral, the deceased bear and the tenth ziplock baggie were discovered there in Chattahoochee Forest Preserve, south of the line boundary across Tennessee & Georgia.
But it was still far from the end of such a bear’s incredible tale.
The bear currently skinned and called Pablo Eskobear upon Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, is indeed an odd popular tourist destination at Lexington, Kentucky’s “Kentucky For Kentucky” commercial business.
They obtained it following a lengthy cross-country quest and chronicled its unusual background on their webpage.
“Its innards were absolutely loaded down with cocaine. “There isn’t a single animal mostly on earth that might withstand this,” said the forensic pathologist who did the post-mortem just on the bear.
Administrators subsequently had the bear taxidermied and given it to the Chattahoochee Delta National Recreational Area, which had it presented at a tourist center.
It was then stored through a conflagration before winding up at a Nashville thrift store. It was later purchased by country music artist Waylon Jennings, who gave it to a buddy in Las Vegas.
About the Release of the Film
After Ron Thompson passed in 2009, his property was disposed of, and Cocaine Bear was purchased for $200 by Chinese immigrant Zhu T’ang.
When Mr. T’ang passed in 2012, the proprietors of Kentucky For Kentucky approached his wife, who consented to give him Cocaine Bear in exchange for payment for the shipment.
The bear has become a phenomenon on social media at the industry’s Lexington branch, the Kentucky Fun Mall.
Cocaine Bear will indeed be released in theatres on February 24, 2023.
