Despite - or perhaps because - Cocaine Bear is as much a comedy as it is an action-horror movie, the violence and gore are something to behold. What the movie presupposes is… what if instead of dying, the bear had brutally mauled a bunch of people?Īnd we mean brutally. A black bear was later discovered to have eaten some 75 pounds of cocaine and died as a result. In 1985 a real-life drug smuggler dumped a bunch of cocaine out of an airplane while flying over northern Georgia and then died when his parachute failed to deploy. Word of mouth will travel very fast, and if people are disappointed, it’s not going to work.”Ĭocaine Bear has the advantage of being based on a true story, albeit barely. You have to actually execute and make a good experience. “We knew that just having a fun idea isn’t enough. “A title like Cocaine Bear gets your foot in the door, but if you don’t deliver, it’s still not going to work,” he said. RELATED: Cocaine Bear first reactions hail one of the best (and craziest) movies of 2023 so far Miller said that the Cocaine Bear team was aware that their job didn’t end with the name. Jackson line-reading alone, but the final feature film is perhaps a bit underwhelming. The 2006 flick got a lot of buzz based on the name and a Samuel L. Look at Snakes on a Plane, a similarly absurd-yet-straightforward title for another killer animal attack movie. However, an instantly viral title and a crazy premise aren’t enough, on their own, to make a movie good. “We felt like it was such a sticky title that was very clear and told you what it was.”

Luckily, Cocaine Bear prevailed, and the wonderfully titled movie will be in theaters on Feb. It’s gonna be called A Walk in the Woods, or something,’” Miller, who made the Elizabeth Banks-directed film along with his producing partner Phil Lord, explained. “We were worried that the studio was going to be, like, ‘You can’t call a movie Cocaine Bear. What was in question, the producer told SYFY WIRE, is whether or not the movie was going to be called Cocaine Bear. The bear goes on a bloody, gory, coke-fueled rampage in the north Georgia woods.

Cocaine Bear, the upcoming movie about - you guessed it - a bear who does a bunch of cocaine, was always going to be rated R, according to producer Chris Miller.

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