As California continues to rebuild after the wildfires earlier this year, Apple’s latest survival drama immortalizes the deadliest fire in the state’s history.
In the first teaser for Paul Greengrass ‘ The Lost Bus , premiering this fall in select theaters and on Apple TV+ , Matthew McConaughey plays school bus driver Kevin McCay, who navigates infernal danger to rescue 23 stranded kids and their teacher Mary Ludwig (played by America Ferrera ) from the 2018 Camp Fire.
The film also stars Yul Vazquez, Ashlie Atkinson and Spencer Watson.
Co-written by Greengrass and Brad Inglesby, The Lost Bus is inspired by true events featured in Lizzie Johnson’s 2021 book Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire . Igniting in Butte County in November 2018, the Camp