Drunk bear from ‘Cocaine Bear’ would win fight against ‘The Revenant’, according to Elizabeth Banks

There will be two bears in the movies next year that will give a lot to talk about, the first being ‘Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey’ and the second being ‘Cocaine Bear’. It is precisely the latter that the director, Elizabeth Banks, claims that she could win a fight against the wild beast that Leonardo DiCaprio faced in “The Revenant” by Alejando González Iñarritu.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, director Elizabeth Banks talked about “Cocaine bear’, who addressed the idea of who would win a bear fight: “Cokey would demolish the bear ‘The avenger’ every time,” said the ‘Spider-Man’ actress. “Cokey” was how they christened the bear who ate 30 kilos of cocaine and died of a subsequent overdose.

Yes Cokey would win a fight against the bear’s ‘The avenger”, maybe it’s because the bear in the film Elizabeth Banks He went insane after consuming the drug that a trafficker threw from his plane. However, the slaughter that can be seen in the film never happened in real life, the animal only died of an overdose in the forest without killing any people.

“Cocaine Bear” is inspired by real events that happened in the state of Georgia, USA in the year 1985. In addition, Banks says that he also references the films of the Coen brothers, Quentin Tarantino and John Carpenter, and In the first preview you can see much of the bear’s violent pilgrimage, until he ends up dead of his own fault.

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When will ‘Cocaine Bear’ debut in Mexico?

Given the stir that the drunk bear has had on social networks, ‘Cocaine bear’ It doesn’t have a premiere in Mexico confirmed, but will arrive in theaters in the United States on February 24, 2023. Thus, it is expected that a chain such as Cinépolis or Cinemex will confirm the arrival of this unusual horror, survival, action film based on true events, in the country .

It is worth mentioning that it is also the last film of Ray Liotta, recognized for being the protagonist of classics such as ‘Goodfellas’ by Martin Scorsese or ‘The Many Saints of Newark’, who died in the same year 2022. In the rest of the ‘Cocaine Bear’ cast also includes Keri Russell, Brooklyn Prince and O’Shea Jackson Jr., among many others.

“Cocaine Bear” could compete with “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” earlier this year, and there would be a much more even fight, one a wild bear thirsting for victims and the other a killer trying to complete the his revenge. We will have to wait a few weeks before they confirm the launch of “Intoxicated Bear” in Latin America.