The bear “Pablo Eskobear” inspired the movie “Cocaine Bear” after consuming a massive amount of cocaine in a forest in the state of Kentucky, USA.
The 2023 movie “Cocaine Bear,” directed by Elizabeth Banks, was inspired by real-life events involving a black bear named “Pablo Eskobear” who consumed 40 kilograms of cocaine in a forest in the state of Kentucky, USA.
Pablo found the package of drugs worth $13 million, which had been dropped from a plane by a pilot smuggling cocaine from Colombia. The pilot abandoned the plane and died because his parachute failed to open.
The bear, whose name references the drug lord Pablo Escobar, died after consuming all the drugs.
“His stomach was literally filled to the brim with cocaine. There is no mammal on the planet that could have survived that,” said the coroner who performed the animal’s autopsy.
Currently, Pablo’s body is mounted and displayed in Kentucky.
Elizabeth Banks, director of the film “Cocaine Bear,” said in an interview with Variety that she made the film as a revenge story for the bear.
“I really felt that this is so wrong, that this bear got caught up in a drug operation that went wrong and ended up dead,” she stated.
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