And there are some things in there that, you know, if I were a betting man, I would have bet were going to get taken out. I would have been fine if somebody wanted to make this movie and call it you know, anything. That’s because they are a lot richer than I am. In talking with Elizabeth Banks as well as Phil Lord, Chris Miller and their producing partner Aditya Sood, they were all very clear that they’d only make this movie if it was called “Cocaine Bear.” So there was never any question in my mind that the movie would be called “Cocaine Bear.” I think that if you asked me back then I would have been like, if it ever gets made, I assume people are probably going to want to change the name.
When you have a script, you want to do anything to get people to read it. If I’m being completely honest - maybe I shouldn’t say it - I never thought anybody was going to make this movie. Was “Cocaine Bear” the title from the start?
But as he explains to Variety, he also sees a promising future for “Cocaine Bear.” Warden, 33, has already shot his directorial debut, the indie thriller “Borderline,” starring his wife, Samara Weaving. Instead, Universal made “Cocaine Bear,” with most of the $35 million budget going to Weta FX to create a photo-realistic, cocaine addicted black bear. Warden first sent his script to Lord Miller, the production company founded by filmmakers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller - Warden’s first job in Hollywood was as a PA on Lord and Miller’s live-action directorial debut, 2012’s “21 Jump Street.” Still, despite their reputation for making movies - from “The LEGO Movie” to “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” - that delightfully defy conventions, Warden had zero expectation that his script would ever make it to theaters. Instead, he says, he wrote “my twisted fantasy of what I wish actually happened after the bear did all that cocaine.” Warden stumbled on the account in the mid-2010s while scrolling through Twitter, “not doing work that I should have been doing,” and instantly realized that “there was something there.”īut Warden wasn’t interested in writing about the drug trafficker who scattered dozens of bags of cocaine across the Appalachian Mountains, and then died when his parachute didn’t open, nor was he keen on writing about a bear who dies from a cocaine overdose. Warden’s sensibility is on robust display in his screenplay for “ Cocaine Bear,” the R-rated action-comedy, directed by Elizabeth Banks, that is loosely based on the true story of a black bear who died after ingesting a mountain of cocaine in 1985 from a botched drug smuggling operation.
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