‘Cocaine Bear’ Trailer is Just as Ridiculous As Its Title Sounds
Oscar winners Phil Lord and Chris Miller have made a movie about a bear on a drug-fueled rampage – check out the first Cocaine Bear trailer.
If you missed out on the history lesson on where the heck this whole thing came from earlier this week, here’s a quick recap:
Andrew Thornton II built a network of criminal connections worldwide, moving arms and drugs. In 1985 he was transporting seventy-five pounds of cocaine on a plane from Columbia to the US. Something went wrong that caused Thornton jumped from his aircraft. His body, dressed in a bulletproof vest and Gucci loafers, landed in someone’s yard in Knoxville, Tennessee.
The $15 million of cocaine he was carrying was found and consumed by a 175-pound black bear in the Chattahoochee National Forest in Georgia. Three months after Thornton’s demise, the FBI found the bear’s body among forty opened plastic containers with traces of cocaine. You can visit the taxidermied remains of the poor, unfortunate bear at Kentucky for Kentucky.
via Kentucky for Kentucky
Cocaine Bear Trailer
There’s no information about how this binge affected the bear beyond suffering a fatal overdose. Cocaine Bear takes some liberties with the story and explores what a bear on cocaine could/would do. This hopped-up Ursus americanus runs through the forest, taking out anything and everything in its path while searching for its next fix. Yep, this dark comedy is going to be as ludicrous as you think it will be.
I must say that Keri Russell’s bright pink outfit in this trailer is magnificent.
Cocaine Bear Cast & Details
The cast includes Keri Russell, Emmy winner Margo Martindale, Emmy winner Ray Liotta, Alden Ehrenreich, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Kristofer Hivju, Kahyun Kim, Christian Convery, Brooklynn Prince, and newcomer Scott Seiss. Oscar winners Phil Lord and Chris Miller are producers, and Elizabeth Banks is directing.
Inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner’s plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it, this wild dark comedy 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 roars into theaters on February 24th.
