The “McConaissance” is officially back. Apple Original Films has dropped the teaser trailer for Matthew McConaughey’s upcoming action drama “The Lost Bus,” a story is inspired by real events and helmed by the Oscar-nominated “United 93” director Paul Greengrass.
While no exact release date has been announced, “The Lost Bus” will hit select theaters and stream on Apple TV+ this fall. In a release, Apple TV+ described the movie as a “white-knuckle ride through one of America’s deadliest wildfires.” McConaughey stars as a school bus driver alongside America Ferrera as a teacher. The pair teams up “to save 22 children from the terrifying inferno.”
Greengrass — who co-wrote the story with Brad Ingelsby — called “The Lost Bus” a tale of “quiet heroism,” adding that he was “honored to have been entrusted with the story.” It is based on Lizzie Johnson’s book “Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire” and is produced by Inglesby and Gregory Goodman. Jason Blumhouse for Blumhouse Productions is on board, too, as a producer, as is Comet Pictures’ Jamie Lee Curtis, who took the production to Blumhouse after hearing Johnson speak on NPR. Johnson also serves as an executive producer.
McConaughey took a six-year break from live-action roles, returning with a role in “The Rivals of Amziah King,” which premiered in March at SXSW. That part, he told Variety, helped him rekindle his love for acting — and through it he also rediscovered how his profession can be a “vacation” from his personal life.
“I remembered a couple of things: One, how much I truly enjoy performing. Two, I remembered, ‘hey, McConaughey, you’re pretty damn good at this,’” he said. “And three, I remembered that acting is a vacation for me, and what I mean by vacation is that when I’m performing, it’s my singular focus. When I walk out the door in the morning, my wife says, ‘Go kick some ass. I got the kiddos. We’re good.’ That’s vacation. Because I’m not multitasking. I’m not compartmentalizing. I’m fully focused on finding the truth of my character.”
Check out the teaser trailer for “The Lost Bus” below:
