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  2. Dec 1, 2022 · The bloody spree that follows the bear’s cocaine binge, as depicted in the trailer, is fictional, but the story about a high bear is very real. Its lore is likely to grow with the movie,...

    • Amanda Holpuch
    • You're Telling Me There Really Was A Bear Who Did Cocaine?
    • How Much Cocaine Are We Talking About Here?
    • And Then The Bear Went on A Murderous Rampage?
    • What Else Do We Know About Thornton?
    • Please Tell Me That, Despite All of This, There's A Happy Ending For The Bear?

    Yes. Our story starts on December 22, 1985, in the mountain town of Blue Ridge in northern Georgia. Investigators were initially combing the forest for cocaine dropped by an airborne drug smuggler (more on him later) when they found a 79kg black bear had overdosed after stumbling upon a duffel bag full of the drug first. Unsurprisingly, cocaine bea...

    A lot. The Times reported that the bear had been found among "40 opened plastic containers with traces of cocaine". The Associated Press wrote that each of the 40 packages was believed to have contained 1 kilogram of cocaine and was "valued at as much as $20 million" at the time. Dr Kenneth Alonso, the state's chief medical examiner, said an autops...

    No, thankfully. That's where the creators behind Cocaine Bear used some creative license. "All of the characters are made up, other than Andrew Thornton who opens the movie," director Elizabeth Banks told ABC News Breakfast. "It presents the 24 hours after that bear ingested cocaine and what would have happened if it came across a bunch of people i...

    Andrew Thornton fell in Knoxville an hour before an unmanned Cessna aeroplane crashed into a mountain in North Carolina, AP reported. A key bearing the same identification as the plane was found in his pocket. Clothes, maps of Jamaica and a pilot's logbook bearing the Cessna's number were found days later in Butts County, about 48 kilometres south ...

    That depends on your opinions on taxidermy. It's said that the bear is currently on display at the Kentucky for Kentucky Fun Mall in Lexington. In a 2015 blog post, the mall details how it tracked down the whereabouts of the bear after contacting the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The mall believes they possess the real deal due to "tell-tale" sc...

    • Jessica Riga
  3. Mar 13, 2023 · Cocaine Bear, a comedic horror film directed by Elizabeth Banks, imagines the results: a chaotic, coke-fueled, carnivorous blood fest. The film is a hit, raking in over $57 million worldwide.

  4. Cocaine Bear, also known as Pablo Eskobear (sometimes spelled Escobear) or Cokey the Bear, was a 175-pound (79-kilogram) American black bear that fatally overdosed on cocaine in 1985. The cocaine had been dropped by a group of Colombian drug smugglers in the wilderness in Tennessee, United States.

  5. Feb 24, 2023 · Cocaine Bear, starring Keri Russell, dramatizes what happened after a bear found a cocaine stash that real-life drug smuggler Andrew Thornton dropped from an airplane in 1985.

    • colin.mcevoy@hearst.com
    • Senior News Editor, Biography.Com
  6. Feb 22, 2023 · Is 'Cocaine Bear' based on a true story? In 1985, ex-narcotics officer Andrew Thornton (played in the movie by Matthew Rhys) brought more than 800 pounds of cocaine from Colombia into the...

  7. Sep 28, 2023 · Yes, Cocaine Bear is based on the true story of a bear who ate way too much cocaine. Everything you need to know about the real story behind Elizabeth Banks' wild action-comedy.