Matthew McConaughey hasn’t starred in a feature film in four years, not since Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen. Paul Greengrass hasn’t directed anything in four years, as well, not since News of the World. Remember that one? As for Jamie Lee Curtis? Well, she’s been busy winning Oscars and slaying Michael Myers, so busier than the both of them. But all three are coming together now for a new movie, wildfire drama The Lost Bus.
Deadline reports Greengrass will direct McConaughey and Curtis in The Lost Bus. This is a project that Curtis has been developing since 2022, as she’s been wanting to adapt Lizzie Johnson‘s book Paradise: One Town’s Struggle To Survive An American Wildfire. Brad Inglesby (Out of the Furnace) will pen the screenplay, with Curtis aboard as a producer alongside Jason Blum of Blumhouse.
For Greengrass, this would be his next project.
The Lost Bus centers on the 2018 wildfire in Paradise, California that killed 85 people. Amid the blaze, a local schoolteacher sought to find an escape route and save a busload of children.
Apple is in talks to acquire the film, and assuming all goes well, production could begin later this year for a 2025 release.
