McConaughey plays a bus driver who volunteers to save a group a kids while Ferrera is their teacher, who is accompanying the children on a field trip when disaster strikes. The movie is based on the 2019 book "Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire.

As California continues to rebuild after the wildfires earlier this year, Apple’s latest survival drama immortalizes the deadliest fire in the state’s history. In the first teaser for Paul Greengrass’ The Lost Bus,