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Mathew McConaughey is making a fiery return to the big screen with Apple TV's The Lost Bus, a survival drama about one of the deadliest wildfire incidents in the world. Based on Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire by Lizzie Johnson, the film shows McConaughey as a bus driver who is fighting to keep a bus full of children safe in the middle of a disaster.
The trailer opens with the actor playing Kevin McKay, a bus driver, having a moment with his mom as he tells her that he's struggling with life. We then see America Ferrera's Mary Ludwig, a dedicated teacher at the school who's children Kevin drives every day. As the trailer progresses, Ludwig's voiceover plays in the backdrop of the visuals as she says, “I thought that I’d be safe here, follow the rules, and nothing bad would happen.” Kevin then adds “I’ve spent my entire life trying to escape. Then, after a few years, my life turned to shame,”
The story then takes a turn as Kevin receives a call that twenty two children need to be picked up and taken home. In a voice over he says,
“When I first got the call to go pick up the kids, I started to think that maybe I could earn a second chance. But I was too late for second chances,”
The trailer then shows the visuals of a fiery California as it burns, while Kevin continues to make it his goal to make sure the kids reach home safely. “I have 22 kids on that bus. I got to get them to their parents,” he says, as scenes of him driving the bus through the fire follow.
The early glimpses of The Lost Bus show Kevin's journey not just as a survival story, but as a poignant search for redemption with withMcConaughey embodying the role of a man who finally finds purpose when the odds are most against him.
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Apart from Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera, the film stars Yul Vazquez as Cal fire chief Martinez, Ashlie Atkinson as a dispenser and McConaughey's own son Levi as Kevin's child Shaun.
They are joined by Kate Wharton, Danny McCarthy, Spencer Watson, Nathan Gariety and Gary Kraus. The film is being produced by Jamie Lee Curtis' Comet Films and Jason Blum's Blumhouse.
Talking about his role in The Lost Bus, McConaughey told Variety in an interview,
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“Kevin is just going through the ho-hum of a regular day when everything is interrupted by this crisis. He didn’t want to answer the call to pick up those kids. But there was no one else on that side of town, so he took the call and it was his salvation.”
The Lost Bus premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 5, 2025 and received mostly positive reviews. The film will open in select theaters on September 19, before making it's debut on Apple TV on October 3, 2025.
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