‘Cocaine Bear’ True Story — What to Know About the 1985 Events Behind the Shocking New Movie

Note: A few language and visuals in this trailer might be NSFW.

The trailer for chief Elizabeth Banks’ film Cocaine Bear shows a fierce, comedic story motivated by a decades-old genuine story.

Featuring Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenreich, Margo Martindale, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Jesse Tyler Ferguson and the late Beam Liotta, the film is promoted as being “propelled by obvious occasions.”

While the film portrays a deadly bear pursuing amuck unintentionally ingesting a sack of cocaine and getting into progressively fierce showdowns with local people, the genuine creature seemed to hurt nobody yet itself after it supposedly ran over drugs in Georgia in 1985.

A Related Press article from Dec. 22, 1985, revealed that examiners saw as a “tore up shipment” of cocaine that a bootlegger had exited a plane in a gym bag.

The sack and the cocaine shipment were situated close to the remaining parts of a mountain bear that was assessed to have been dead for around a month.

“The bear got to it before we could, and he tore the gym bag open, got him some cocaine and [overdosed],” a Georgia Department of Examination representative told the AP at that point.

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“Nothing remains except for bones and a big stow away,” they added of the bear, which was said to weigh more than 150 lbs.

The bear’s remaining parts were found in Fannin Province, Georgia, around 80 miles north of Atlanta and close to the state’s boundary with Tennessee.

The gym bag and 40 bundles of cocaine were “tore open and dispersed over a slope” when examiners found the scene, as indicated by the AP. Georgia authorities told columnists at the time that the dead bear, and possibly more creatures, ate “a few million bucks” worth of cocaine from the sacks, which were esteemed at more than $20 million altogether.

As indicated by the AP, GBI specialists had found around 75 lbs. of cocaine in gym bags “under 100 yards” from the location of the bear’s passing only weeks sooner in November. The specialists had been looking for cocaine dropped by previous Kentucky opiates agent Andrew Thornton, who tumbled to his passing endeavoring to parachute while conveying 77 lbs. of medications with him.- Thornton, whom The New York Times depicted as “a sentenced drug bootlegger” in an article dated Dec. 23, 1985, tumbled to his demise in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Sept. 11, 1985.

An automated plane later distinguished as Thornton’s crashed in North Carolina about one hour after the fact, as per the AP.

A stuffed form of the purported “Cocaine Bear” is in plain view at a shopping center in Kentucky.

In September, chief Banks, 48, portrayed Cocaine Bear as “a great discussion piece motivated by this crazy genuine occasion” during a meeting with The New York Times.

“[The film is] a valuable chance to slice through a little commotion,” she said. “The title alone! I was clear with General. I made them ensure that we could involve the title in America.

I was as, ‘I would rather not immediate this on the off chance that you will let me know being called Bear in the Woods is going.’ Cocaine Bear is in theaters Feb. 24.