Paul Greengrass's new film The Lost Bus – which explores events during the 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California – therefore feels especially timely, and it's perhaps no surprise that producer Jamie Lee Curtis has labelled it the most important movie she'll make in her career.
Read on for everything you need to know about the true story behind the film.
Specifically, it adapts a section of Lizzie Johnson's non-fiction book Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire, focusing on the heroic exploits of bus driver Kevin McKay, who was responsible for navigating 22 children and their teachers to safety in the midst of the carnage.
How accurate does The Lost Bus portray the real events?
For example, the storyline about McKay's teenage son Shaun is amended for the film. In reality, he had evacuated hours before his father began his perilous journey and so McKay did not need to worry about his son's safety while he was driving.
Many of the other extra dramatic aspects – including the scene where armed looters banged on the door and the part in which McKay stopped the bus in the middle of an empty park are also inventions, while the loss of connection the bus experienced also appears to have been exaggerated.
What real events are left out in The Lost Bus?
The most obvious omission in the film is that one of the two teachers who was present in the bus – the then-29-year-old Abbie Davis – is left out of the narrative, with the only named teacher being America Ferrera's Mary Ludwig. This was actually at the request of the real Davis, who told the filmmakers that she wished not to be included.
Explaining why there wasn't more focus on PG&E, Greengrass told Time that the film was "not really a film about PG&E" and that while "their failure to maintain the infrastructure was the prime course of the fire", the "thing that movies do best is [portray] the resilience of human beings in the face of adversity and peril".
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