The real challenge is making sure it doesn’t feel schlocky or doesn’t feel like it’s winking at the audience, but it clearly knows what it is and is having a good time. But you don’t want to lean too far as just a pure comedy or just a gory thriller movie. They both rely on surprise and shock and taboo and getting an auditory response from the audience. Miller: That’s the hardest part about this movie: to nail the tone, mixing comedy and horror. What were the challenges in figuring out exactly what that should be? Obviously, this is a film that has a very specific tone. They broke down the complicated nature of nailing a Cocaine Bear tone-it’s trickier than you think-the art of generating major horror-comedy moments, and their fondness for the large CGI bear that became belovedly known as “Cokey.” And I was like, why the fuck shouldn’t we do Cocaine Bear right now?” Touché.įor more expert opinion on why make Cocaine Bear right now and, more specifically, how, we chatted with Lord and Miller.
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In an iconic response to a question about what convinced her to sign on for a movie like this, Russell told The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, “I just thought it was such a crazy, let-loose departure from everything we were experiencing at that moment. are on board for the chaos, but they’re star-studded support for what we all bought tickets to see: a drug-addled bear on a rampage. Keri Russell, Margo Martindale, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Brooklyn Prince, Alden Ehrenreich, and O’Shea Jackson Jr. The film features a tangle of interconnecting storylines involving park rangers, criminals on the lam, hiking tourists, and a mom looking for her missing daughter in the woods, all of whom are terrorized by a massive bear fiending for its next hit of coke-and for its next meal. While researching this, Warden came across a post on Reddit that said, “There was probably about a five-minute window before died where was the most dangerous apex predator on any fucking continent.” From that, Cocaine Bear was born. Written by Jimmy Warden and directed by Elizabeth Banks, it springboards off of true events: A drug smuggler ditched bags of drugs out of a plane, and a bear found and ate them, eventually dying. (It also was a big win for industry rag headline writers who love drug puns: “ Cocaine Bear Sniffs Up $23 Million ” “ Moviegoers Addicted to Cocaine Bear ” “ Cocaine Bear Snorts Up a $23 Million Box Office Debut.”)Ī film this wild and this unapologetic-you have to be a little high on your own supply to just name your movie “Cocaine Bear”-was never going to be a sure thing.
The outrageous R-rated horror-comedy earned an impressive $23 million at the box office, a huge haul for an original movie idea in the age of Marveldom and raging sequelitis. While maybe not always simultaneous, it’s safe to say there were a lot of “Oh shits!” screamed out in cinemas over the weekend.
“Oh my God,” Lord tells The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, “I would love it if the audience screamed in unison, ‘Oh shit!’” Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the producers of Cocaine Bear (who are also known for their work on 21 Jump Street, 22 Jump Street, The LEGO Movie, and Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse) are very happy to hear that. And then there are the sounds not on screen, but all around you, reflexive outbursts that grow into a refrain throughout the entire running time of the movie: people shouting the words, “Oh shit!” There are the innocent people screaming bloody murder as said high-as-hell bear tears them to pieces while on its ravenous bender. There are the manic growls of the bear who is hopped up on a brick of the finest Colombian blow. There are sounds that one hears often during a screening of the new film Cocaine Bear.
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