Matthew McConaughey and a flaming bus
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MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND A FLAMING BUS
Matthew McConaughey is the ultimate disaster film hero.
In Interstellar (2014), Earth is subjected to an extinction-level famine that forces McConaughey to blast off and discover a habitable planet.
McConaughey took his career to literal new heights by blending his art-house pathos indicative of roles like Dallas Buyers Club (2013) and his larger-than-life screen presence characteristic of his early mega-budget work like Sahara (2005).
McConaughey explained the impetus for this synthesis at Sundance in 2013:
“I feel like I’ve done a version of rom-com and action roles before. Or I feel like I can do that tomorrow morning. And I think I’ve done enough of that for now, and I want something that I don’t think I can do tomorrow morning. I want something that scares me.”
It was just announced that McConaughey is attached to a Paul Greengrass (dir: Captain Phillips) disaster film, The Lost Bus.
Here’s the synopsis for the book, on which the script is based, that chronicled California’s deadliest fire:
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