Cocaine Bear Trailer Turns True Story Into a Wild Action-Comedy

If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if that “I love cocaine!” grizzly bear meme came to life, the trailer for Cocaine Bear has an answer for you. Universal Pictures has released the first trailer for Elizabeth Banks’ action-comedy thriller inspired (VERY loosely) by reveal events, and you can check it out below.

The true story is something quite different; in 1985 a drug runner named Andrew C. Thornton II threw a duffel bag of cocaine out of a plane because the craft was too weighed down. He jumped from the plane himself, intending to parachute and retrieve the drugs, but the chute didn’t open and Thornton died. The drugs were found by a black bear who ate it all and died; it was eventually taxidermied and became a local mascot. However, the Banks-directed film imagines what happened if the bear lived (and was much bigger) and went on a rampage, as you can see below.

The film stars Keri Russell, O’Shea Jackson, Jr., Christian Convery-Jennings, Alden Ehrenreich, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Brooklynn Prince, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Kristofer Hivju, Hannah Hoekstra, Aaron Holliday, with Margo Martindale and Ray Liotta and arrives on February 24th. It is described as follows:

Inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner’s plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it, this wild dark comedy finds an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converging in a Georgia forest where a 500- pound apex predator has ingested a staggering amount of cocaine and gone on a coke-fueled rampage for more blow … and blood.