A US cinema will host the “100 per cent actual” Cocaine Bear taxidermy when the movie is launched later this month.
Directed by Elizabeth Banks, the action-comedy movie is impressed by the true story of an American black bear that ingested a duffel bag of cocaine in 1985. Within the movie, starring Keri Russell and Alden Ehrenreich, the bear goes on a killing rampage round a small city in Georgia.
The Kentucky Theatre, an arthouse cinema in Lexington, is providing the chance to see the taxidermy bear which impressed the movie within the cinema’s foyer on Friday February 24 and Saturday February 25.
The bear is owned by Kentucky For Kentucky and is extensively thought-about to be the identical one who famously overdosed on cocaine in 1985, though some have disputed its authenticity.
Talking to Syfy, Hayward Wilkirson, Kentucky Theatre Director, stated: “I referred to as them up and instructed them we have been gonna have the film and [asked] in the event that they’d be keen to carry it to the foyer for a few days.
“Not solely have been they happy, however they stated that they had been contacted by a few extra business multiplexes and instructed them that we have been their first precedence. They considered us and we considered them.”
An outline on the cinema’s website reads: “You may come see him, take some pics, and seize your very personal Cocaine Bear merch when you’re right here.”
The movie additionally stars O’Shea Jackson Jr., Christian Convery, Brooklynn Prince, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Margo Martindale. It additionally marks one of many remaining roles for Ray Liotta, who died aged 67 final yr.
Cocaine Bear will probably be launched in US and UK cinemas on February 24.