By Express News Service
Actor-director Elizabeth Banks is all set to helm a thriller movie titled Cocaine Bear for Universal.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Banks will direct the movie with filmmaker duo Phil Lord and Chris Miller serving because the producers.Written by Jimmy Warden, Cocaine Bear is described as a character-driven thriller impressed by true occasions that passed off in Kentucky in 1985.
It was reported in 1985 by The New York Times {that a} 175-pound black bear consumed the contents of a duffle bag stuffed with greater than 70 kilos of cocaine that was dropped from an airplane by an area drug smuggler, Andrew Thornton.
The bear was later discovered lifeless of an obvious drug overdose.
Further plot particulars of the film are but to be identified, nevertheless, the movie is anticipated to begin taking pictures later this yr.Aditya Sood, who introduced the challenge at Universal, may also produce together with Brian Duffield, Lord and Miller.