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‘Cocaine Bear’ Writer Jimmy Warden on the One Line He Wouldn’t Cross With True Crime Story

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“Cocaine Bear,” now playing in theaters courtesy of Universal Pictures. Directed by Elizabeth Banks and penned by Jimmy Warden, the not-quite-true story concerns a black bear minding her own business who stumbles upon cocaine dropped from a drug-smuggling plane.

The bear gets high on the supply and eventually threatens to turn a dozen or so small-towners into lunch meat.“Cocaine Bear” is very loosely based on a true-life crime story that occurred in the forests of America in 1985.

A 175-pound American black bear was found dead in northern Georgia having overdosed on cocaine. The drugs were dropped out of a plane by smugglers in Tennessee, and the unlucky bear stumbled upon the ill-gotten goods, sampled the product and promptly dropped dead.

The so-called “cocaine bear,” also known as “Pablo Eskobear,” was stuffed and displayed at a mall in Kentucky. Screenwriter Jimmy Walden, in a discussion with TheWrap, admitted he only used the true story as a jumping-off point for his own wild flourishes.

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