Brad Ingelsby On 'The Lost Bus' at TIFF, 'Task' And 'Mare Of Easttown'

It’s a big week for Brad Ingelsby . When we meet in the lounge at Toronto ’s St. Regis Hotel, he’s just landed for the TIFF premiere of The Lost Bus , the film he co-wrote with director Paul Greengrass . And only last night, he was at the New York premiere of Task , his new HBO Max show,which sees him return to the Philly suburbs he depicted so compellingly in his Emmy-winning series Mare of Easttown .

The Lost Bus takes us inside the hellish inferno of the 2018 Camp fire that decimated the town of Paradise in Northern California. Ingelsby co-wrote the adaptation of former San Francisco Chronicle reporter Lizzie Johnson’s book Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire. We follow the true story of down-on-his-luck school bus driver Kevin McKay (Ma