The Bus

They Were Supposed to Wake Up in Florida.

Feature Film in Development

Genre

Psychological Thriller • Mystery • Suspense

Logline

Twenty-four students from some of America’s wealthiest families fall asleep aboard a luxury bus headed for Disney World—only to awaken traveling in the wrong direction, with no way to contact home and a driver who refuses to explain why.

Synopsis

For twenty-four excited students from some of the wealthiest families in America, the trip to Disney World is supposed to be the adventure of a lifetime.

They board a luxury bus late one evening, laugh with friends, watch movies, and eventually drift off to sleep, expecting to wake somewhere along the road to Florida.

They don’t.

When the students awaken the next morning, nothing outside the windows looks familiar. Highway signs point in the wrong direction. The scenery doesn’t match their route. Their phones are useless. And no matter how many questions they ask, the driver refuses to explain where they are going.

As fear spreads through the bus, the students realize this isn’t a wrong turn.

Someone deliberately changed their destination.

What begins as a terrifying disappearance soon becomes something much larger as investigators and desperate families search for a bus that seems to have vanished—and discover that the students aboard it may have been selected for a reason.

With no way to contact the outside world and no idea who is controlling their journey, the students must work together to understand why they were taken before they reach a destination from which there may be no return.

Based on the novel by Raymond A. Phillips

The first story in The Bus trilogy.

Status

Feature Film — Pitch / Development

Contact

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Availability

The underlying novel is complete. Additional materials are available upon request for qualified industry professionals.