The Lost Bus, the upcoming survival drama starring Matthew McConaughey, has released its first teaser trailer.
The Apple TV+ film is set against the backdrop of the real-life 2018 Camp Fire in California, with the action following bus driver Kevin McCoy (McConaughey) as he attempts to get people to safety.
Based on Lizzie Johnson’s 2021 non-fiction novel Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire, the streaming service has unveiled the first teaser for the upcoming film, depicting the moment Kevin gets his first distress call.
Directed and co-written by Paul Greengrass alongside Brad Ingelsby, The Lost Bus also features America Ferrera, Yul Vasquez, Ashlie Atkinson, Spencer Watson and Danny McCarthy in supporting roles.
Greengrass, best known for his work in the Bourne series and Captain Phillips, said of the film (via Deadline): “The Lost Bus is the story of quiet heroism – of people coming together in the face of the unthinkable. I’m honoured to have been entrusted with this story.”
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The film is another project in McConaughey’s comeback after the actor scaled back his output over the past five years, with The Rivals of Amziah King and Brothers also set to be released in the next year.
The latter, a series from Apple TV+, sees McConaughey team up with True Detective co-star and close friend Woody Harrelson for a comedy in which the pair play fictionalised versions of themselves as their friendship is “put to the test”.
While Brothers is still a way from release, True Detective creator and former showrunner Nic Pizzolatto recently revealed that he had ideated a story which would see McConaughey and Harrelson reprise their respective roles as Rust Cohle and Marty Hart.
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“I actually have another story for Cohle and Hart that – who knows? – maybe we’ll do it one day,” he teased. “It’s character-based again, but it’s not something I’ve written or anything. I had that in my head.”
“We’ve talked about getting back together and doing it, and I think the guys are open to it. It’s just a question of whether that would ever happen or not,” continued Pizzolatto, who wrote the first three seasons of the series.
The Lost Bus has no release date.
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