Set to be a major movie event for 2023…

In what promises to be the most cooked movie of 2023, the trailer for Cocaine Bear has finally dropped, eight months after its announcement. Directed by American actress and filmmaker Elizabeth Banks (Pitch Perfect, Charlie’s Angels), the film is based on the true story from 1985 of a black bear who ate a duffel-bag worth of cocaine after a drug runner’s plane crashed in the US state of Georgia.

“And the Oscar goes to … Cocaine Bear.” pic.twitter.com/G4vDyNCEqT

— Mike Ryan (@mikeryan) November 30, 2022

Cocaine Bear‘s star-studded cast features the likes of Keri Russell and Margo Martindale (both from The Americans), Ray Liotta (The Many Saints of Newark), Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story), O’Shea Jackson Jr. (Straight Outta Compton), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family), Kristofer Hivju (Game of Thrones) and more.

Me waiting in my luxury reclining theater seat for “Cocaine Bear” pic.twitter.com/Tn3ZsnKsYX

— Plathanos 🐝🇩🇴 (@SavinTheBees) November 29, 2022

“Inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner’s plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it, this wild thriller finds an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converging in a Georgia forest where a 500- pound apex predator has ingested a staggering amount of cocaine and gone on a coke-fueled rampage for more blow … and blood,” a synopsis for the film describes.

With all the ingredients to be a major box office hit, the first official trailer for Cocaine Bear only confirms the hype. Watch it for yourself below.