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‘Cocaine Bear’ – Snort Up This Official Image Gallery and Play the Online Video Game!
Inspired by true events, Universal’s Cocaine Bear is headed our way from director Elizabeth Banks (Charlie’s Angels), arriving exclusively in movie theaters on February 24, 2023.
Universal has unleashed a brand new image gallery this afternoon, which you can browse below. Additionally, a Pac-Man-style Cocaine Bear online video game can be played here!
The game is titled Cocaine Bear: The Rise of Pablo Escobear and it puts you in charge of the titular Cocaine Bear. The task? Devour cocaine and eat human beings, of course.
The movie is inspired by true events that took place in Kentucky in 1985, and it was written by Jimmy Warden. Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) produced.
The basic gist of the story is that a 175-pound black bear was found dead from an overdose after ingesting massive amounts of cocaine dropped into the woods by a drug smuggler.
Deadline details, “The movie finds an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converging in a Georgia forest where a 500- pound apex predator has ingested a staggering amount of cocaine and gone on a coke-fueled rampage for more blow … and blood.”
Keri Russell, Ray Liotta, Alden Ehrenreich, O’Shea Jackson and Jesse Tyler Ferguson star in the movie. Brian Duffield (Underwater, Spontaneous) is also on board to produce.
Directed by Elizabeth Banks from a screenplay by Jimmy Warden (The Babysitter: Killer Queen), Cocaine Bear is produced by Oscar® winners Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, The Mitchells vs. The Machines) and Aditya Sood (The Martian) for Lord Miller, by Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman (Pitch Perfect franchise) for Brownstone Productions, and by Brian Duffield (Spontaneous). Robin Fisichella (Ma) will executive produce.
(from left) Sari (Keri Russell), Peter (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Ranger Liz (Margo Martindale) in Cocaine Bear, directed by Elizabeth Banks.
(from left) Daveed (O’Shea Jackson, Jr.), Officer Reba (Ayoola Smart), Eddie (Alden Ehrenreich) and Syd (Ray Liotta) in Cocaine Bear, directed by Elizabeth Banks.
(from left) Kristoffer (Kristofer Hivju) and Elsa (Hannah Hoekstra) in Cocaine Bear, directed by Elizabeth Banks.
(from left) Daveed (O’Shea Jackson, Jr.), Eddie (Alden Ehrenreich), Officer Reba (Ayoola Smart) and Syd (Ray Liotta) in Cocaine Bear, directed by Elizabeth Banks.
(from left) Sari (Keri Russell), Dee Dee (Brooklynn Prince) and Henry (Christian Convery) in Cocaine Bear, directed by Elizabeth Banks.
Cocaine Bear, directed by Elizabeth Banks.
Cocaine Bear, directed by Elizabeth Banks.
Keri Russell as Sari in Cocaine Bear, directed by Elizabeth Banks.
Cocaine Bear, directed by Elizabeth Banks.
(from left) Stache (Aaron Holliday) and Daveed (O’Shea Jackson, Jr.) in Cocaine Bear, directed by Elizabeth Banks.
Director Elizabeth Banks on the set of Cocaine Bear.
Universal has been having a hell of a time getting their Universal Monsters brand back on a better path in the wake of the Dark Universe collapsing, with four movies thus far released in the years since The Mummy attempted to get that interconnected universe off the ground.
First was Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, to date the only post-Mummy hit for the Universal Monsters, followed by The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Renfield, and now Abigail. The latter three films have attempted to bring Dracula back to the screen in fresh ways, but both Demeter and Renfield severely underperformed at the box office. And while Abigail is a far better vampire movie than those two, it’s unfortunately also struggling to turn a profit.
Where does the Universal Monsters brand go from here? The good news is that Universal and Blumhouse have once again enlisted the help of Leigh Whannell for their upcoming Wolf Man reboot, which is howling its way into theaters in January 2025. This is good news, of course, because Whannell’s Invisible Man was the best – and certainly most profitable – of the post-Dark Universe movies that Universal has been able to conjure up. The film ended its worldwide run with $144 million back in 2020, a massive win considering the $7 million budget.
Given the film was such a success, you may wondering why The Invisible Man 2 hasn’t come along in these past four years. But the wait for that sequel may be coming to an end.
Speaking with the Happy Sad Confused podcast this week, The Invisible Man star Elisabeth Moss notes that she feels “very good” about the sequel’s development at this point in time.
“Blumhouse and my production company [Love & Squalor Pictures]… we are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” Moss updates this week. “And I feel very good about it.”
She adds, “We are very much intent on continuing that story.”
At the end of the 2020 movie, Elisabeth Moss’s heroine Cecilia Kass uses her stalker’s high-tech invisibility suit to kill him, now in possession of the technology that ruined her life.
Stay tuned for more on The Invisible Man 2 as we learn it.
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