Matthew McConaughey
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I think the number was 30 people or so died.
Jamie Lee Curtis heard this story on NPR and went to Jason Bloom, and Jason Bloom went to Paul Greengrass, who's the director of Captain Phillips, United 93, Black Sunday.
Really good action director, but also with a good personal dramatic story in it.
And then they came to me for it.
And there were a lot of heroic people that at that time that went โ ran towards the crisis instead of away from the crisis.
But this one particular story about this bus driver and this teacher that โ
got 22 kids to safety was the story we picked to tell.
And, um, we went and shot it in Santa Fe.
This guy that, uh, this guy that I play is, um, Oh, here's the trailer.
So this guy, Kevin, in our story, comes back home because his dad has passed away, and he's going to take care of his widowed mother and try to reunite with his son, which, by the way, check this out, Joe.
My mom plays my mom, and Levi plays my son.
In a movie, man.
Your mom plays your mom?
So he comes back, do that, and he gets a part-time job as a school bus driver.