The latest look at the upcoming horror comedy Cocaine Bear reveals the overwhelming danger of a grizzly that’s hopped up on goofballs. Released courtesy of the official Twitter account for Cocaine Bear, the clip compares the titular bear with a sober one, and the stats really do speak for themselves. Check out the clip from Cocaine Bear below.
So, while a regular old, nose candy-less bear can smell things up to a mile away, climb at a speed of 4 feet per second, and has a top speed of 30 miles per hour, a Cocaine Bear can smell everything, has a climbing speed that increases to 100 feet per second, and has a top speed of up to 75 miles per hour. Which seemingly suggests that blow gives bears superpowers. Bad news for the victims of the Cocaine Bear.
Directed by Elizabeth Banks, Cocaine Bear is inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner's plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it, this wild thriller 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 a Revenge Tale That Will Live Up to its B-Movie Title
Banks has since described this absurdist horror comedy as a “revenge story” from the perspective of the bear. "I felt a lot of sympathy for the bear. Like, wow, this bear — which, in real life, ended up dead after eating all this coke — ended up being sort of collateral damage in this War on Drugs,” the director explained. “And I just thought, Well, then this movie can be a revenge story for the bear. And it just gave me a point of view and a purpose for making it. Like, there's a real message here: We should not f--- with nature, nature will win."
With a title like Cocaine Bear, the movie has a lot to live up, with Banks promising that the bloody chaos will do justice to its B-movie trappings. "Cocaine Bear is super-entertaining. If you want to let go of everything in your life for 95 minutes, this is a great way to do that,” she explained. “It's an incredible adventure. There are some really beautiful messages in it. It's been fun to see people relate to the movie. It's terrifying [when a film is finished and out of your hands]. That's my horror movie right there. There's only so much that I can control."
Written by Jimmy Warden, Cocaine Bear features an ensemble cast that includes Keri Russell (The Americans, Antlers), O'Shea Jackson Jr. (Straight Outta Compton, Obi-Wan Kenobi), Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family), Margo Martindale (BoJack Horseman), Kristofer Hivju (Game of Thrones), Brooklyn Prince (Home Before Dark), Christian Convery (Sweet Tooth), Kahyun Kim (American Gods), newcomer Scott Seiss, and the late, great Ray Liotta (Goodfellas, The Many Saints of Newark).
Cocaine Bear is scheduled to be released on February 24, 2023, by Universal Pictures.