This is what The Vicious Bear director Elizabeth Banks said about the idea of ​​expanding the film’s plot as a franchise with other animals.
The premiere of one of cinema’s strangest plots is coming in 2023. Vicious Bear A giant grizzly consumes a consignment of cocaine and goes completely insane, becoming a ruthless killer. Actress Elizabeth Banks Will direct the work.
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However, the production team is not interested in the story left there, instead expanding suffrage, The filmmaker admitted that she is already thinking of a sequel and has the perfect animal for it.
When Banks was asked if he would take on another “cocaine” animal story, he said, “I’ve seen it, if it’s a great story, sure.” ,Shark With cocaine, I don’t see how it wouldn’t be successful,” the creative then added.
How did you make Vicious Bear?
The Vicious Bear was written by Jimmy Warden, who sent the script Phil Lord why Christopher Miller in his production company Lord Miller. The producing duo, best known for The Lego Movie and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, ended up sharing the script with Banks.
“He had a pitch deck, and it was very bloody,” Miller previously said. “It contained many body parts and internal organs.” He added of the screenplay: “It was one of those things where you hear the concept and go, ‘That’s interesting, but is there an actual movie in it? ‘” … But all key They did a great job of turning it into something fun, better than you can imagine for something called The Vicious Bear.”
“I had a lot of sympathy for the bear,” Banks explained. EW About real life vicious bear. “Like, wow, this bear who, in real life, died after ingesting all this Coke, was kind of collateral damage in this war on drugs. And I thought, ‘Okay, so this movie is about revenge for the bear. The story can happen. And it just gave me a vision and a purpose to do it. There is a real message here: ‘We should not mess with nature, nature will win'”.
added to his interview with Diversity: “I really felt like it was so messed up that this bear got dragged into this drug run and died … I thought this movie could be a revenge story about that bear.”
What is Vicious Bear about?
The film focuses on a drug dealer whose plane with a consignment of cocaine crashes in the middle of the jungle. Medicine He is found by a black bear, who eats him. From there violence and madness will spread.
they stand out in distribution Ray Liotta, Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenreich, Margo Martindale, Kristofer Hivju, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Isiah Whitlock Jr., Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Brooklyn Prince, Christian Convery, Kahyun Kim, Ayula Smart, Chloe Harris, Scott Seuss, Connor Lambert, Aaron Holiday, Leo Hannah and Shane Connellan.
vicious bear It will release in cinemas worldwide on February 24, 2023.
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