{"id":45541,"date":"2025-07-29T17:13:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/45541\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T17:13:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:13:03","slug":"matthew-mcconaughey-america-ferrera-rescue-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/45541\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew McConaughey, America Ferrera Rescue Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn the first trailer for white-knuckle thriller <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-lost-bus\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-lost-bus\" data-tag=\"the-lost-bus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Lost Bus<\/a>, a wayward bus driver (<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/matthew-mcconaughey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_matthew-mcconaughey\" data-tag=\"matthew-mcconaughey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew McConaughey<\/a>) answers a distress call for a classroom of kids trapped in Ponderosa Elementary School. Led by a dedicated teacher played by <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/america-ferrera\/\" id=\"auto-tag_america-ferrera\" data-tag=\"america-ferrera\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">America Ferrera<\/a>, the 23 kids are at risk of being engulfed by the 2018 Camp Fire, the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Apple Original Film, based on Lizzie Johnson\u2019s book Paradise: One Town\u2019s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire and inspired by real events, is written and directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/paul-greengrass\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paul-greengrass\" data-tag=\"paul-greengrass\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Greengrass<\/a>. The first look at the survival drama, which <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/06\/the-lost-bus-teaser-matthew-mcconaughey-paul-greengrass-1236426978\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">debuted a teaser last month<\/a>, shows McConaughey and Ferrera race against time and flames on a gridlocked highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWriter Brad Inglesby produces alongside Greengrass, along with as Gregory Goodman, Jason Blum for Blumhouse Productions and Jamie Lee Curtis for Comet Pictures. Executive producers are Amy Lord and Johnson.\u00a0Yul Vazquez, Ashlie Atkinson and Spencer Watson also star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCelebrating a world premiere at this year\u2019s <a data-id=\"1236463346\" data-type=\"post\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/07\/tiff-lineup-sydney-sweeny-dwayne-johnson-nuremberg-1236463346\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Film Festival<\/a>, the film will debut in select theaters September 19 before launching on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/apple-tv-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_apple-tv-2\" data-tag=\"apple-tv-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple TV+<\/a> on October 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe trailer, which you can view above, opens with the calm before the storm, as McConaughey\u2019s driver Kevin gets called into action after overhearing a scanner ask: \u201cIs there anybody that can go and pick these kids up?\u201d But as the situation in Paradise worsens, Mary (Ferrera) assures him it\u2019s not \u201ctoo late\u201d to also save his son, who is at his grandmother\u2019s home, as the trailer closes in on a shot of the bus speeding through fire-torn terrain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIgniting in Butte County in November 2018, the Camp Fire resulted in 86 deaths and burned more than 150,000 acres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThe Lost Bus\u00a0is the story of quiet heroism \u2014 of people coming together in the face of the unthinkable. I\u2019m honored to have been entrusted with this story,\u201d Greengrass said previously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the first trailer for white-knuckle thriller The Lost Bus, a wayward bus driver (Matthew McConaughey) answers a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[36019,36020,5896,88,10633,206,36021,36022],"class_list":{"0":"post-45541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-america-ferrera","9":"tag-apple-original-films","10":"tag-apple-tv","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-matthew-mcconaughey","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-paul-greengrass","15":"tag-the-lost-bus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}