{"id":143305,"date":"2025-09-09T05:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/143305\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T05:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:21:11","slug":"the-lost-buss-paul-greengrass-was-in-edit-when-la-fires-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/143305\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Lost Bus’s Paul Greengrass Was In Edit When LA Fires Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn making The Lost Bus, Paul Greengrass joined forces with Brad Ingelsby<\/a> (Mare of Easttown, Task) on an adaptation of former San Francisco Chronicle reporter Lizzie Johnson\u2019s book\u00a0Paradise: One Town\u2019s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Lost Bus follows the events of the 2018 Camp fire that devastated the town of Paradise in Northern California. School bus driver Kevin McKay (Matthew McConaughey) must somehow get his bus full of children to safety with the help of their teacher Mary Ludwig (America Ferrera).<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring a panel conversation at Deadline\u2019s TIFF studio, Greengrass revealed the experience of being in the editing process on The Lost Bus when the LA fires struck earlier this year. \u201cTo be absolutely honest. Billy Goldenberg, who cut the film, he had to go home,\u201d Greengrass said. \u201cWe were about two or three weeks off from finishing. We were actually mixing at the time. Then it happened, and Billy had to race home because he nearly lost his home. [Producer] Jason Blum nearly lost his home. And [producer] Jamie Lee [Curtis]. It was one of those moments where reality rolled right across a film. And in that moment, the truth is, you feel like what you\u2019ve done is a sort of puny and pale thing. But then afterwards, you know, I felt as I feel now, that the world is burning. These huge, uncontained fires are present all over the globe, and they are getting worse, and there\u2019s more of them, and it\u2019s part of the global terrors of our age. So to make a film with accessible characters that reflects that reality, I think, is a good thing for cinema to be doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Matthew<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\u2018The Lost Bus\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tApple<\/p>\n

\n\tFor McConaughey, hearing Kevin\u2019s own version of the events of that day was vital. \u201cHe told me the story of that day about three times. It\u2019s a long, good story, but there\u2019s certain spots where he each time a memory would come in his mind. You\u2019d see it jar him, and it would affect him in the telling of it. And then we talk about some of those moments \u2013 the decision to go pick up the 22 kids after he had just made the decision to get home and take care of his mom and son. Where did that come from? Partially, he would say, it was just doing my job.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKevin and Mary are true heroes to McConaughey. \u201cSomeone like Kevin and Mary, a teacher and a bus driver, there\u2019s no prep, there\u2019s no plan, they\u2019re just in the middle of it, and have to make a choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFerrera cites Mary\u2019s incredible ability to focus on the needs of the children in her charge in that terrifying situation. \u201cYou think about people who go into education. We put our children, their education and their entire safety in their hands. They\u2019re pretty extraordinary people who choose to do that with their lives. And Mary had been teaching for decades, and she felt an incredible sense of duty, to show up for the children in her charge. Talking to her, she really expressed how, for her, that meant completely suppressing the experience she was having as a mother with two children out in the town that she couldn\u2019t communicate with, and a human who had all her own survival instincts going on at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTo watch the full conversation, click on the video above.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Deadline Studio at TIFF is hosted at\u00a0Bisha Hotel<\/a>\u00a0and sponsored by\u00a0Cast & Crew<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Final Draft<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tTHE LOST BUS<\/p>\n

\n\tSection:\u00a0Special Presentations<\/p>\n

\n\tDirector:\u00a0Paul Greengrass<\/p>\n

\n\tScreenwriters:\u00a0Brad Ingelsby and Paul Greengrass<\/p>\n

\n\tLogline:\u00a0Based on events that transpired during the California Camp Fire, this tale of heroism from Oscar-nominated director Paul Greengrass (United 93) stars Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera in a desperate struggle to bring a busload of children to safety.<\/p>\n

\n\tPanelists:\u00a0Paul Greengrass, Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera.<\/p>\n

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