Apple TV+ has released the official The Lost Bus trailer for its upcoming survival drama starring Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey and Golden Globe winner America Ferrera. The movie is slated to make its debut in select theaters on September 19, followed by its Apple TV+ premiere on Friday, October 3, 2025.

“Inspired by real events, the movie is a white-knuckle ride through one of America’s deadliest wildfires, as a wayward school bus driver and a dedicated school teacher battle to save 22 children from the terrifying inferno,” reads the official synopis.

Check out The Lost Bus trailer below (watch more trailers):

What happens in The Lost Bus trailer?

The video features McConaughey as a bus driver who will risk everything to rescue a teacher and her students from a raging wildfire that has struck California. It highlights some of the movie’s intense and thrilling sequences as they find a way to escape the fiery road ahead. It also teases the personal dilemma that McConaughey’s character will be facing after he seemingly fails to go to rescue his own child.

The Lost Bus is directed by Paul Greengrass from a screenplay written by Brad Ingelsby based on Lizzie Johnson’s 2021 book Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire about the 2018 California wildfires. The cast also includes Ferrera as Mary Ludwig, Yul Vazquez as Ray Martinez, Ashlie Atkinson as Ruby, Spencer Watson as Hopkins, Danny McCarthy as McKenzie, and more.

The movie is produced by Ingelsby, Greg Goodman, Jamie Lee Curtis’ Comet Pictures, and Jason Blum’s Blumhouse, with Lizzie Johnson and Amy Lord serving as executive producers. The creative team also includes director of photography Pål Ulvik Rokseth and composer James Newton Howard, along with editors Peter Dudgeon, William Goldenberg, and Paul Rubell.

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