Elizabeth Banks says it’s possible that even more drunk animals are coming to the big screen.
In a conversation with LJUDI before the release of his latest film Skin careThe actor and director, 50, said talks are underway for a potential sequel to her 2023 film. Cocaine bear.
“I know there are deep discussions about what could be in that area,” says Banks, who directed the horror-comedy. “I’m not currently involved in a plan to put more cocaine animal movies on the screen, but I’m open to that, of course.”
Cocaine bear starring Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenreich, Margo Martindale, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Jesse Tyler Ferguson and the late Ray Liotta. She sensationalized a true story from 1985 about a black bear that allegedly consumed tens of kilograms of cocaine after a drug smuggler dropped a bag of the substance from a plane over rural Georgia.
The film follows the bear’s gruesome, drug-addled rampage, including hikers, paramedics and delinquent children who get in its way.
Elizabeth Banks and the Cocaine Bear at the Oscars. Kevin Winter/Getty
“I love those characters, and I made sure that only a couple of them survived, so if we wanted to follow them somewhere, we could,” says Banks. “We’ll see what happens.”
Earlier this summer, when news broke of a group of marine biologists finding high levels of cocaine in a group of Brazilian sharp-nosed sharks off the coast near Rio de Janeiro, some fans wondered if the shocking story could be the basis for a spin-off movie .
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Although Banks says she’s not actively working on any such projects, she admits she’s seen “all the coke shark memes going around.”
“I think it would have to be its own story,” Banks says of the theory Cocaine shark movie.
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This isn’t the first time the words “cocaine shark” have been bandied about — or Banks has answered questions about a shark-based spin-off.
When it was announced in early 2023 that New Zealand police had found three tons of cocaine floating in the Pacific Ocean, the star told PEOPLE that she was certainly open to a movie premise “if there’s a great story.”
“Jaws with cocaine, I don’t see how it loses,” she added.
Skin carestarring Banks, Lewis Pullman, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez and Nathan Fillion, is in theaters August 16.
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