With a month to go until cocaine bear begins its coked-up rampage in theaters, Universal Pictures has released a TV spot that perfectly captures the tongue-in-cheek tone of Elizabeth Banks’ dark comedy.
Telling the true story of an eccentric collective of people who find themselves at the mercy of a 500-pound black bear in a Georgia forest when he goes on a drug binge after accidentally ingesting a staggering amount of cocaine . With ‘dude voiceover’ indicating that “You didn’t even see it, but you declared it THE GREATEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME”you can check out the teaser below…
Inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug dealer’s plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it, this wild black comedy finds a bizarre group of cops, criminals, tourists and teenagers converging in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound apex predator ingested a staggering amount of cocaine and ran amok with coke for more beatings…and blood.
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cocaine bear stars Keri Russel (Americans), O’Shea Jackson, Jr (Straight outta Compton), Christian Convery-Jennings (Gourmand), Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (modern family), Prince of Brooklyn (The Florida Project), Isiah Whitlock Jr (BlacKkKlansman), Kristofer Hivju (game of thrones), Hannah Hoekstra (charlie’s angels), Aaron Holiday (Sharp objects), Margo Martindale (Americans) and Ray Liotta (The Many Saints of Newark).
Cocaine Bear hits theaters February 24.