Olivia Wilde: Yes, ‘Cocaine Bear’ Was Real. Here’s the Back Story.

Laying it on the line…. Inside incredible true story of the ‘Cocaine Bear’ who ate duffel bag full of 75lb of coke that dropped from a smugglers plane and how new movie takes WILD artistic license

A trailer for Universal Pictures’ ‘Cocaine Bear’ dropped Wednesday,
The movie stars Keri Russell, Ray Liotta, Alden Ehrenreich, Kristofer Hivju, O’Shea Jackson, and Margo Martindale and is directed by Elizabeth Banks
The film is inspired by true events from 1985 in which a smuggler was moving cocaine from Colombia and threw cocaine out of his plane
A 75-pound package of coke thrown from the Cessna made its way into the Chattahoochee National Forest in northern Georgia
In November 1985, a hunter in the forest discovered a 175-pound bear who had died after getting into the cocaine and overdosing
The movie, which is slated to come out in February, takes major artistic liberties, setting the coked-up bear on a rampage

The movie “Cocaine Bear” offers a fictionalized account of what happened when a black bear found several pounds of cocaine in Georgia in 1985.

Nearly 40 years after a 175-pound black bear found and ingested cocaine in a Georgia forest, the drug binge has inspired a movie.

The trailer for a new movie called “Cocaine Bear” was released on Wednesday, and the film’s title is not a metaphor or clever wordplay: The movie is about a bear high on cocaine.

The bloody spree that follows the bear’s cocaine binge, as depicted in the trailer, is fictional, but the story about a high bear is very real. Its lore is likely to grow with the movie, which was directed by Elizabeth Banks and is set for a Feb. 24 release.

“Cocaine Bear” stars Keri Russell, O’Shea Jackson Jr. and Ray Liotta, who died in May, in one of his final film roles. It depicts the bear’s drug-induced trail of terror and the victims he leaves behind.

The real story is less bloody.

It all began, as you might guess, in the 1980s. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced in December 1985 that a 175-pound black bear had “died of an overdose of cocaine after discovering a batch of the drug,” according to a three-sentence item from United Press International that appeared in The New York Times.
A United Press International item on the cocaine bear appeared in The New York Times in December 1985.

“The cocaine was apparently dropped from a plane piloted by Andrew Thornton, a convicted drug smuggler who died Sept. 11 in Knoxville, Tenn., because he was carrying too heavy a load while parachuting,” U.P.I. reported. “The bureau said the bear was found Friday in northern Georgia among 40 opened plastic containers with traces of cocaine.”

Andrew Thornton was killed when his parachute did not deploy during a jump from his plane

The bear was found dead in the mountains of Fannin County, Ga., just south of the Tennessee border.

“There’s nothing left but bones and a big hide,” Gary Garner of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation told The Associated Press at the time.

Dr. Kenneth Alonso, the state’s chief medical examiner at the time, said after an autopsy in December 1985 that the bear had absorbed three or four grams of cocaine into its blood stream, although it may have eaten more, The Associated Press reported that month.

In a trailer for the film released Wednesday, the bear ingests the drug and then goes on a coke-fueled rampage

Today, the very same bear is said to be on display in Lexington, Ky., at the Kentucky for Kentucky Fun Mall. The mall said in an August 2015 blog post that workers there wanted to know what happened to the bear and found out it had been stuffed. The blog post says the stuffed bear was at one point owned by the country singer Waylon Jennings, who kept it in his home in Las Vegas, before it was delivered to the store. (The New York Times could not independently confirm this account.)

What happened to the bear in its final days, or hours, after the cocaine binge is a mystery, but the origins of the cocaine are not.

Mr. Thornton was a known drug smuggler and a former police officer. He was found dead the morning of Sept. 11, 1985, in the backyard of a house in Knoxville, Tenn., wearing a parachute and Gucci loafers. He also had several weapons and a bag containing about 35 kilograms of cocaine, The Knoxville News Sentinel reported.

A key in Mr. Thornton’s pocket matched the tail number of a wrecked plane that was found in Clay County, N.C., and based on Mr. Thornton’s history of drug smuggling, investigators guessed there was more cocaine nearby, The News Sentinel reported. The investigators searched the surrounding area and found more than 300 pounds of cocaine in a search that lasted several months.

They also found the dead bear.

Inspired by the stoned bear, Olivia Wilde is hoping sex tape below will turn her into a teddy bear…

Olivia Wilde Nude Scenes From “Buddy Z” And “The Change-Up” In 4K

Two of Olivia Wilde’s lesser appreciated nude scenes from the films “Buddy Z” (above) and “The Change-Up” (below) have just been remastered and enhanced in ultra high definition.

Previously we have remastered and enhanced Olivia’s nude debut (here), as well as two of her more famous nude scenes (here and here)… But with Olivia currently grabbing headlines over the news that she is a terrible mother and a raging bitch, now is certainly the opportune time to look more closely at this bewitching seductress with these newly enhanced nude scenes.

Of course Olivia continues to flaunt her itty bitty boob bags to this very day, as she often exposes them in magazines (as in the photos above)… As well as while out on the town in see-through gowns with her boy-toy Harry Styles (as in the photos below).