Cocaine Bear Jimmy Warden by no means wished to name the comedy horror film the rest, saying there was by no means a query in his thoughts.
And why would you? Cocaine Bear completely sums up the lately launched film by Elizabeth Banks, however if you select that title, you’d higher ship. Cocaine Bear author Jimmy Warden spoke with THR and stated that he by no means as soon as thought of giving the film one other title.
“There was by no means a query in my thoughts,” Jimmy Warden stated. “Why wouldn’t we name it Cocaine Bear? It’s not day-after-day {that a} title comes your method that describes the film in two phrases. You perceive precisely what it’s and what you need it to be.” I’m reminded of Snakes on a Airplane being briefly modified to Pacific Air Flight 121 earlier than Samuel L. Jackson demanded that or not it’s returned to the unique title. Fortunately, Cocaine Bear has fared higher than Snakes on a Airplane.
The true story of Cocaine Bear is simply as compelling because the film. In 1985, convicted drug smuggler Andrew Thornton was on a smuggling run from Columbia and had dumped a number of packages stuffed with cocaine out of an plane earlier than bailing from the airplane himself. Sadly, he hit his head on the tail of the plane and wound up in a free fall to the bottom, the place he was discovered useless in somebody’s driveway. A number of months later, a 175-pound black bear was discovered useless after devouring roughly $15 million price of cocaine that Thornton had dropped. After listening to the real-life story, Warden wished to discover what occurred with the bear. “It’s sort of the fantasy of what may need occurred. What might have occurred,” Warden stated. “I feel the purpose in writing the script was: Don’t disappoint the viewers. Don’t name the film Cocaine Bear after which make it in regards to the drug commerce.“
Jimmy Warden did loads of Google analysis about bears to assist write the script, and he discovered that black bears, such because the one featured within the film, are hardly ever harmful in actual life, however a pound of cocaine might simply change that. “Black bears on cocaine are most likely sort of harmful,” Warden stated. “I’ve identified individuals like that. The particular person’s not harmful in any respect, however you give them some cocaine and, you’re like, ‘be careful.’“
Cocaine Bear is now taking part in in theaters, so remember to take a look at a evaluate from our personal Chris Bumbray proper right here. Arrow within the Head’s Tyler Nichols additionally dove into Cocaine Bear within the premiere episode of Trendy Horror Film Speak, a brand new collection overlaying the most recent horror films, information, and trailer.
