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Posted: 2021-03-10T01:22:01Z | Updated: 2021-03-10T01:22:45Z

Elizabeth Banks will reportedly direct a thriller based on a true story about a 175-pound bear who ate a whole lot of cocaine.

The name of the movie, naturally, is Cocaine Bear.

The Hollywood Reporter, which noted that the flick will be bear-centric, reported that the exact plot details are being kept under wraps.

The real-life events that inspired Cocaine Bear took place in 1985, after drug smuggler Andrew Thornton II died parachuting from a plane in Tennessee. Prior to his death, Thorntons plane had been dropping bags of cocaine along its flight path. Apparently, a black bear came upon one of these bags and unfortunately ate a lethal dose. The discovery of the dead bear in Georgia, among 40 opened plastic containers with traces of cocaine, made the New York Times.