{"id":259041,"date":"2025-10-29T16:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/259041\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T16:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:39:09","slug":"mia-goth-zach-galifianakis-and-dan-stevens-to-star-in-hey-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/259041\/","title":{"rendered":"Mia Goth, Zach Galifianakis and Dan Stevens to Star in ‘Hey Bear’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cPortlandia\u201d co-creator Jonathan Krisel is making his feature debut with \u201cHey Bear,\u201d a bold revenge comedy that will star Mia Goth<\/a> (\u201cFrankenstein\u201d), Zach Galifianakis (\u201cThe Hangover trilogy\u201d) and Dan Stevens<\/a> (\u201cI\u2019m Your Man\u201d).<\/p>\n

\n\tPenned by Carrie Kemper, the Emmy-winning writer of \u201cBeef,\u201d \u201cHey Bear\u201d is being pitched as a \u201ccoming of rage\u201d story boasting offbeat comedy, about a woman who seeks revenge on the bear that ate her husband. Alix Madigan (\u201cWinter\u2019s Bone\u201d) will produce.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHey Bear\u201d will be introduced to buyers at AFM, with HanWay Films<\/a> handling international sales and WME Independent & UTA Independent Film Group representing North America.<\/p>\n

\n\tGoth stars as Claire, who \u201chas always led a life solely based on other people\u2019s expectations. Married to Gregory (Dan Stevens), she accommodates his desire to spend his life studying bears in Glacier National Park, even though it means months away from him at a time. During one of her visits, a grizzly bear, nicknamed Mr. Cranky by Gregory, mauls him to death. After being told by the park rangers that Mr. Cranky was euthanised, Claire finds out that the bear has merely been transported to another national park and is living his best life. The usually meek Claire makes up her mind to exact revenge on the bear. She teams up with socially awkward park ranger Putt (Galifianakis) to assassinate Mr. Cranky, but Putt has his own murky motivations for joining her. With death and truth lurking around every tree, Claire\u2019s desperate, grief-fueled mission takes her on an ultimately uplifting journey of empowerment and self-discovery. Set in breath-taking natural scenery, this \u201ccoming of rage\u201d story is a darkly comedic rollercoaster ride full of originality and surprise,\u201d the synopsis reads. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere is nothing more thrilling than coming across a project that breaks barriers in terms of originality. As absurd and crazy as the premise of this story is, you always fully connect and empathise with Claire\u2019s journey as she figures out how out of grief, to take ownership of her life again,\u201d said Gabrielle Stewart, CEO of HanWay Films. \u201cMia Goth, Dan Stevens and Zach Galifianakis are the dream team to make us laugh, feel, and gasp with shock and horror,\u201d Stewart continued. <\/p>\n

\n\tExecutive producers are Carrie Kemper and Danica Radovanov. Krisel is represented by UTA and Mosaic. Kemper is represented by UTA. Goth is represented by WME, Curtis Brown and Jackoway, Austen. Galifianakis is represented by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and UTA. Stevens is represented by CAA and Julian Belfrage Associates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPortlandia\u201d co-creator Jonathan Krisel is making his feature debut with \u201cHey Bear,\u201d a bold revenge comedy that will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[73451,88,139943,35498,206,139944],"class_list":{"0":"post-259041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-dan-stevens","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hanway-films","11":"tag-mia-goth","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-zack-galifianakis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}