We've had the Murder Mysterenaissance, the Brendanaissance, and the Cageaissance, but now it is time for the main event: McConaissance 2.0. Yes, aft
We’ve had the Murder Mysterenaissance, the Brendanaissance, and the Cageaissance, but now it is time for the main event: McConaissance 2.0. Yes, after six years away from the movies (beyond some voicework here and there), Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey has not one but two films heading our way this year. One is The Vast Of Night filmmaker Andrew Patterson’s sophomore effort, crime thriller The Rivals Of Amziah King. The other — whose first trailer just dropped — is The Lost Bus, an Apple TV+ bound feature from Paul Greengrass based on Paradise, journalist Lizzie Johnson’s first-hand account of 2018’s deadly Californian wildfires. Check out the tense teaser for the movie below;
The official synopsis for The Lost Bus, which sees McConaughey and Barbie actor America Ferrera star as a bus driver and school teacher trying to shepherd 22 schoolchildren through a rapidly spreading blaze, describes Greengrass’ film as “a white-knuckle ride through one of America’s deadliest wildfires.” And honestly, on present evidence, that sounds about damn right. Through great plumes of smoke, effectively disorienting shaky cam shots of a fraught-looking McConaughey and Ferrera surrounded by the burnt ambers of a raging fire, and a single, desperate radio transmission, this minute-long teaser sets a tense tone without a single line of dialogue from our leads. And even though we don’t hear McConaughey’s palm-clenching driver speak here, boy does it feel good to see the Interstellar actor back in action, paired with a filmmaker whose experience in the “inspired by a true story” national tragedy sub-genre — United 93, Bloody Sunday, 22 July — speaks for itself.
It’s been a few years now since Jamie Lee Curtis first came across Johnson’s book and saw the opportunity to produce a film inspired by it, and Greengrass boarded as director a whole SAG-AFTRA and WGA strike ago. Now though, The Lost Bus is finally about to reach its final stop — and, touch wood, it looks like it will have been more than worth the wait. The movie’s due out later this year, but stay tuned for a concrete release date just as soon as we get it.
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