When Paul Greengrass first learned about the fires consuming Los Angeles this past January, he was almost finished editing The Lost Bus—a film about the 2018 Camp Fire, the deadliest and most destructive blaze in California history. Every day, he had been looking at images of fire sweeping through a California town, leaving devastation in its wake. Now here it was again, happening in real life.
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