Overview

• The Lost Bus will premiere as a Special Presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, open in select theaters starting September 19, and begin streaming on Apple TV+ on October 3, 2025.
• The official trailer, released July 29, thrusts viewers into a white-knuckle rescue as bus driver Kevin McKay (Matthew McConaughey) and teacher Mary Ludwig (America Ferrera) race to save 22 children from a blazing inferno.
• Directed and co-written by Paul Greengrass with Mare of Easttown creator Brad Ingelsby, the film adapts Lizzie Johnson’s 2021 book Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire.
• Apple Original Films leads production alongside Blumhouse’s Jason Blum, Comet Pictures’ Jamie Lee Curtis, and Gregory Goodman, with Amy Lord and Lizzie Johnson serving as executive producers.
• The 2018 Camp Fire in Butte County claimed 86 lives and scorched over 150,000 acres, making it California’s deadliest wildfire and the backdrop for this intense survival drama.