Hold onto your butts, the Cocaine Bear trailer has arrived

It’s been 37 years because the information first broke a few black bear discovered useless in Georgia after ingesting about 70 kilos of cocaine, which apparently fell out of a useless smuggler’s airplane and landed within the wilderness. But it surely’s solely been just a few years because the information broke that The Lego Film and 21 Bounce Avenue directors-turned-producing-team Phil Lord and Chris Miller have been backing a darkish comedy based mostly on that information story, turning the useless bear right into a rampaging, drug-addled killer bear “on a rampage for blow and blood,” per the film’s tagline. Now the primary trailer for Cocaine Bear has landed, and it’s wall-to-wall mayhem: half Stephen King’s Cujo, half Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil, with possibly somewhat little bit of Reno 911! thrown in.

Ray Liotta options in Cocaine Bear, the final movie he accomplished earlier than his dying in early 2022. There are a whole lot of acquainted names within the solid, together with Margo Martindale, Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenreich, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Scott Seiss, and Isiah Whitlock Jr. amongst them. However the star is clearly the CG bear, which alternates between cute YouTube-animal habits and ripping individuals’s limbs off, apparently as a result of it feels they’re coming between it and its subsequent bump.

Elizabeth Banks directed Cocaine Bear, which looks like an odd undertaking for her: Banks’ work on Pitch Excellent 2 and the 2019 Charlie’s Angels exhibits she’s eager about each comedy and motion, however this one appears somewhat reckless, foolish, and over-the-top for her tastes. Or possibly we’re simply seeing a aspect of her we’ve by no means seen earlier than: the aspect drawn to totally goofy humor about individuals being terrorized by coked-up wildlife.

Cocaine Bear will debut in theaters on Feb. 24, 2023.