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Pitch Perfect‘s Elizabeth Banks has shifted into completely wild and bizarre territory.

The director heard the story about a black bear who ingested an entire duffel bag of cocaine after it had fallen out of a drug smuggler’s plane in December 1985, and decided, yes, that’ll be her next movie.

Thus, Cocaine Bear was born and it is exactly what the title promises.

Although, the movie doesn’t entirely chronicle what the OG cocaine bear got up to. He was found three months after his death, lying beside an empty bag and 40 opened plastic containers of blow.

He’s currently on display at Kentucky for Kentucky Fun Mall in Lexington City. Shame.

Nevertheless, his legacy is shaping up to be the best thriller of 2023, notes The Daily Beast, and he doesn’t die nearly as quickly as he did in real life:

Oh, no. There’s plenty of mauling, cocaine drooling, and rabid tree-climbing to be done first. And it’s not just one duffel of cocaine that the bear ingests.

“A lot of cocaine was lost,” Ray Liotta says, nearly shaking in fear, at the beginning of the trailer. Just how much cocaine are we talking about?

Give this bonkers movie trailer a moment of your time:

From the very beginning, you know what you’re in for – a bear that is completely batshit on blow.

Besides his wild snarling, door-bashing, tree-vaulting, flesh-eating, and berserk behaviour, even the dialogue is primarily focused on reassuring the audience that Cocaine Bear is a film about a bear that does cocaine.

The Guardian is very excited about this incredibly 2D-seeming premise, that being a bear on cocaine; nothing more, nothing less:

To fulfill the promise of the trailer, it needs to only be a film about a bear on cocaine. There must be no heavy-handed moralizing about the drug trade. There must be minimal realistic depictions of a bear dying from a debilitating drug overdose. There should be no subplots whatsoever.

I am going to watch Cocaine Bear. I am going to pay for my own ticket. But I swear to god, if I so much as sense any dialogue whatsoever that does not directly discuss what a bear is like when it is on cocaine, I am demanding a refund.

Fair enough.

Cocaine Bear will be out in theatres on February 24 next year.

[source:guardian&dailybeast]