Overview

• Paul Greengrass directs the Apple Original thriller starring Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera, dramatizing the 2018 Camp Fire rescue of 22 schoolchildren by bus driver Kevin McKay and teacher Mary Ludwig.
• Following its Friday world premiere at Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre, the film quickly drew strong festival buzz and holds a 100% rating from 13 early Rotten Tomatoes reviews.
• Greengrass staged the action with a real school bus near controlled gas burns on an abandoned campus outside Santa Fe, augmenting footage with carefully composited images of real fires.
• Most on-screen firefighters are real crews who battled the Paradise blaze, with California Fire chief John Messina appearing as himself to heighten authenticity.
• Jamie Lee Curtis, Jason Blum, and Gregory Goodman produce, with Greengrass and Brad Ingelsby co-writing from Lizzie Johnson’s reporting in Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire.