"I've described it as a horror film, and the monsters are fire,"
"You think you're making one film, but the real film is in Paul's head. And it's like a documentary, there's maybe three cameras, and you can go anywhere. It's thrilling,"
The Lost Bus dramatizes the 2018 Camp Fire through Kevin, a school bus driver who must guide 22 children to safety as flames engulf the town of Paradise. The story focuses on tense, confined evacuation aboard the bus, with Kevin aided by teacher Mary Ludwig and overseen by Cal Fire Battalion Chief Ray Martinez. The film draws from Lizzie Johnson's book Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire and recounts the Camp Fire's vast destruction: more than 150,000 acres burned, 19,000 structures destroyed, and 85 deaths. Director Paul Greengrass employs documentary-like filming to heighten realism and terror.
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