Overview
- Apple TV+ released the official trailer on July 29, featuring Matthew McConaughey as a bus driver and America Ferrera as a teacher leading a rescue of 22 children from a raging wildfire.
- The Lost Bus adapts Lizzie Johnson’s book Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire, with Paul Greengrass directing and co-writing alongside Brad Ingelsby.
- Producers Jason Blum, Jamie Lee Curtis, Gregory Goodman and writer-producer Brad Ingelsby collaborate under Apple Original Films and Blumhouse to bring the true story to screens.
- The narrative recreates the deadliest wildfire in California history, the 2018 Camp Fire in Butte County, which burned over 150,000 acres and claimed 86 lives.
- Designated a Special Presentation at Festival, the film will premiere at TIFF, open in select theaters on September 19 before streaming on Apple TV+ starting October 3.