McConaughey unveils California fire film 'The Lost Bus'

For Hollywood stars Matthew McConaughey and Jamie Lee Curtis, making an action film about the deadliest wildfire in California history hits close to home.

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"The Lost Bus" tells the harrowing true story of a school bus driver who risked his life to save 22 children from the inferno that destroyed the town of Paradise in 2018.

The movie's world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival came as Los Angeles rebuilds from yet more deadly blazes in the fire-wracked western US state, images of which shocked the world again in January.

McConaughey, who resided for years in repeatedly fire-hit Malibu, said depicting such topical and real events is an extra "responsibility and honor."

"This is going to be a huge-action, urgent, epic-scope, fire-is-a-predator film, like it hasn't been seen on film before. And it's going to be a deeply personal story."