As California continues to rebuild after the wildfires earlier this yr, Apple’s newest survival drama immortalizes the deadliest fireplace within the state’s historical past.
Within the first teaser for Paul Greengrass‘ The Misplaced Bus, premiering this fall in choose theaters and on Apple TV+, Matthew McConaughey performs faculty bus driver Kevin McCay, who navigates infernal hazard to rescue 23 stranded youngsters and their trainer Mary Ludwig (performed by America Ferrera) from the 2018 Camp Fireplace.
The movie additionally stars Yul Vazquez, Ashlie Atkinson and Spencer Watson.
Co-written by Greengrass and Brad Inglesby, The Misplaced Bus is impressed by true occasions featured in Lizzie Johnson’s 2021 e book Paradise: One City’s Battle to Survive an American Wildfire. Igniting in Butte County in November 2018, the Camp Fireplace brought on 86 fatalities and burned greater than 150,000 acres.
“The Misplaced Bus is the story of quiet heroism — of individuals coming collectively within the face of the unthinkable. I’m honored to have been entrusted with this story,” mentioned Greengrass.
The Misplaced Bus is produced by Ingelsby, Gregory Goodman, Jason Blum for Blumhouse Productions and Jamie Lee Curtis for Comet Photos, with Johnson government producing.