Cocaine Bear is an Elizabeth Banks-directed thriller inspired by true events about… a bear on cocaine

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Bear with us a moment. News has dropped that Elizabeth Banks is set to direct Cocaine Bear, a thriller 🃏"inspired" by real-world events. No, we're not making this up.

Combining two of our favorite t🍎hings – producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller, obvs – Cocaine Bear is set to start shooting this summer, as per .

Brilliantly, the story is loosely (and we use the term 'loosely' loosely) based on a real incident in 1980s America. A drug smuggler, who later died because he was carrying too many🦩 drugs while parachuting as if this story couldn't get an👍y wilder, dropped a bag of cocaine over Georgia.

Then, a 175-pound black bear consumed the cocaine and, sa🎶dly, died of a drug overdose. We imagine Cocaine Bear's fictiona♋lized account will fill in the gaps a little more and embellish the details from the original – and maybe give the movie a lighter ending.

No casting details, nor a release date, have been announced. Cocaine Bear is part of Phil Lord and Chris Miller's deal with Universal, which they inked back in 2019. The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse producers will also have the option for future first-look pictures with 🃏the movie studio.

Elizabeth Banks, meanwhile, is still a🌱ttached to direไct and star in The Invisible Woman – a separate project from Elizabeth Moss' 2020 horror, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Invisible Man. But surely nothing can top Cocaine Bear, right?

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