{"id":46902,"date":"2025-07-30T06:34:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/46902\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T06:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:34:13","slug":"matthew-mcconaughey-saves-children-from-wildfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/46902\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew McConaughey Saves Children From Wildfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/matthew-mcconaughey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_matthew-mcconaughey_1\" data-tag=\"matthew-mcconaughey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew McConaughey<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/america-ferrera\/\" id=\"auto-tag_america-ferrera_1\" data-tag=\"america-ferrera\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">America Ferrera<\/a> protect children from a deadly fire in the new trailer for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/the-lost-bus\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-lost-bus_1\" data-tag=\"the-lost-bus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Lost Bus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOn Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/apple-tv\/\" id=\"auto-tag_apple-tv_1\" data-tag=\"apple-tv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple TV+<\/a> dropped the first official trailer for The Lost Bus, a film inspired by Lizzie Johnson\u2019s book, Paradise: One Town\u2019s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire, which was about the 2018 wildfire in Paradise, California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe trailer opens with McConaughey\u2019s character, Kevin, hearing a call for help over the radio that there are \u201c23 kids who are stranded\u201d at an elementary school and need to be picked up and saved from the wildfire. And the children happen to be in Mary\u2019s class (played by Ferrera). A still in the trailer calls the blaze \u201cthe deadliest wildfire in California history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe film\u2019s official synopsis reads, \u201cThe Lost Bus is a white-knuckle ride through one of America\u2019s deadliest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/wildfires\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wildfires_1\" data-tag=\"wildfires\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wildfires<\/a> as a wayward school bus driver (McConaughey) and a dedicated school teacher (Ferrera) battle to save 23 children from the terrifying inferno.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn addition to the Interstellar actor and Barbie actress, Yul Vazquez, Ashlie Atkinson and Spencer Watson also star in the film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Lost Bus is directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/paul-greengrass\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paul-greengrass_1\" data-tag=\"paul-greengrass\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Greengrass<\/a> (the Jason Bourne franchise), and he also produces the film alongside Brad Inglesby, Gregory Goodman and Jason Blum for Blumhouse Productions as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/jamie-lee-curtis\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jamie-lee-curtis_1\" data-tag=\"jamie-lee-curtis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamie Lee Curtis<\/a> for Comet Pictures. Executive producers include Amy Lord and Johnson. Greengrass and Inglesby penned the screenplay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe film will release in select theaters on Sept. 19 and will be available to stream on Apple TV+ on Oct. 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWatch the trailer below. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera protect children from a deadly fire in the new trailer for The Lost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[36019,5896,88,20055,10633,206,36021,36022,6399],"class_list":{"0":"post-46902","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-tv","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-jamie-lee-curtis","12":"tag-matthew-mcconaughey","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-paul-greengrass","15":"tag-the-lost-bus","16":"tag-wildfires"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46902","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=46902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}