The movie I am in disbelief about being real is called Cocaine Bear. The movie is loosely based on a true story, with a premise of “after ingesting a duffel bag full of cocaine, an American black bear goes on a murderous rampage in a small Georgia town where a group of locals and tourists must join forces in order to survive the attack.”
The movie boasts a great cast including Kerri Russell, O’Shea Jackson, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and the late great Ray Liotta. It is also directed by Elizabeth Banks.
The story that inspired the movie is based on the real story of a 175-pound American black bear that died after ingesting a duffel bag full of cocaine in December 1985. The cocaine had been dropped out of an airplane piloted by Andrew C. Thornton II, a former narcotics officer and convicted drug smuggler, because his plane was carrying too heavy a load. The bear was found three months later in the north of the state of Georgia alongside 40 opened plastic containers of cocaine.
The bear is currently on display at the Kentucky for Kentucky Fun Mall in Lexington, Kentucky, US, who named the creature “Cocaine Bear” in 2015. Though before it landed there the taxidermied bear was owned by country music legend Waylon Jennings. It was after Jennings death that the bear was auctioned off for $200.
I am very interested in seeing this film for some odd reason. I think it is one that will be so bad it’s good. I still cannot believe it is a real movie though, who says there are no new ideas in Hollywood.
-Everett
