'Pitch Perfect' helmer Elizabeth Banks reveals the biggest risks of her upcoming movie, 'Cocaine Bear'
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: 'Pitch Perfect' star, Elizabeth Banks is yet again coming out with another movie, 'Cocaine Bear'. It is loosely inspired by true events that took place in the mid-eighties, 'Cocaine Bear' gives a blow-by-blow account of the unbelievable mishap in the 90s, with a lot more blood. When a drug runner drops an outstanding amount of cocaine on the aptly-called Blood Mountain in Georgia, a 500-pound black bear ingests a brick of it before it can be picked up. Coked up, the bear goes on a rampage, leaving a trail of gore in its wake. Unlike what actually happened, if this bear is going down, he’s taking dug dealers, tourists, and cops down with him.
The movie stars Keri Russell, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Margo Martindale, Matthew Rhys, Kristofer Hivju, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Alden Ehrenreich, and the late, Ray Liotta. Regardless, Banks is ideally known for playing Effie Trinket in 'The Hunger Games' film series (2012–2015) and Gail Abernathy-McKadden in the 'Pitch Perfect' film series, which she wants the audience to watch first so they have an idea of who she is.
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'It was about being audacious and bold'
During her Collider interview ahead of 'Cocaine Bear’s worldwide release in theaters on February 24, Banks talks about the biggest risks with a project like 'Cocaine Bear' and working with Weta to bring the bear to life.
She said, "You know, the only thing that could have derailed it, frankly, was if we didn't believe that Wētā could deliver the bear. Because everything else was about being bold, it was about being audacious. It was about challenging people to create something that lived up to the title of Cocaine Bear, right? To me, the biggest risk of the entire endeavor was, I had no lead character. The bear was never going to be there, and it had to work, it had to be real. It had to be like [a] photorealistic, documentary of a bear in the woods. I didn't know if it was gonna work out. Of course, I had great partners in Wētā. Wētā delivered the most beautiful bear I could imagine and incredible performance for that bear. You know, the collaboration was just a dream. It's the only way the movie works is if the bear works. "
Movie plot is different than real life
However, the film's plot differs from real-life events in a number of ways. Notably, the real-life 'Cocaine Bear' is not known to have killed anyone after consuming drugs, and what transpired in the time leading up to its death from overdose is unknown.
'Cocaine Bear' is scheduled to be released on February 24, 2023, by Universal Pictures.
