Universalreleased the firstCocaine Beartrailer, giving audiences a first glimpse at the film directed by Elizabeth Banks, who is taking on a wilder subject matter than thePitch Perfectsequels would have led anyone to believe.
Cocaine Bearis a movie inspired by the real-life1985 story of a 175-pound black bear who died after snarfing up an entire duffel bag of cocaine after it fell from the sky when former Narc cop-turned-drug smuggler, Andrew Thornton II, dropped it from a plane because it was too heavy to hang onto. Trying to parachute away, Thornton also snuffed it.
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TheCocaine Beartrailer opens with an ambulance pulling up to a cabin and the medics knocking on the door. It cuts inside, where a phone dangles off the hook, dripping blood. In the background, the furniture is scattered everywhere. One EMT checks the house, sees a growling bear behind a door splattered with blood, and slowly pulls the door closed, telling his partner they should go. Suffice it to say, the bear blasts through the door, knocking him to the ground and roaring before it cuts to the Universal logo.
Two men in a bar are watching a newscast setting up the same events as described: a man in a plane tossed a duffel of cocaine out of his plane and landed somewhere below. TheCocaine Beartrailer then introduces cast members Isaiah Whitlock, Jr. as a cop investigating what happened to the drugs and Margot Martindale as a park ranger leading Kerri Russell in a search for her kids, who come across the torn open bundles of coke. Also on hand are the men from the bar—O’Shea Jackson, Jr. andSolo: A Star War Story’s Alden Ehrenreich—as thugs working for Ray Liotta, who wants the drugs back in hand. All of it with a rampaging, whacked-out bear in the middle.
Suffice it to say, they come across the bear, watch it down a brick of cocaine, and then get high in a bad way. Audiences should find Ehrenreich freaking out while describing it to Liotta as a treat. The bear begins its blackly comic rampage, tossing and eating people all over the place, a Margot Martindale here,a Jesse Tyler Ferguson there. As it storms around, viewers see the cast running all over the place, trying to get away from it by hiding behind buildings or jumping off cliffs. TheCocaine Beartrailer ends with a shot of Martindale strapped to a gurney, aiming as the bear gallops up to the ambulance she’s in and leaps.
