Overview

• The Apple TV+ release follows a Toronto premiere and brief theatrical run, with streaming beginning Oct. 3.
• Matthew McConaughey portrays bus driver Kevin McKay evacuating 22 students during the 2018 Camp Fire, with America Ferrera as teacher Mary Ludwig.
• Director Paul Greengrass leans on practical fire effects and tense, in-the-moment camerawork that reviewers describe as harrowing and immersive.
• Coverage places the narrative in the disaster’s real context, citing 85 deaths and PG&E’s involuntary manslaughter pleas tied to poor power-line maintenance.
• Adapted from Lizzie Johnson’s reporting, the film compresses facts with composite characters and includes McConaughey’s real mother and son in supporting roles.