Known for films like ‘Avatar‘, ‘The Terminator’, and ‘Titanic‘ among others, Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron is working on his next big project as he is revealed to have purchased the rights to Nicky Pellegrino’s upcoming book ‘The Ghosts Of Hiroshima‘, set for release in August 2025.
The director has said that he would get into the production of a film that will combine the upcoming book with Pellegrino’s 2015 book, ‘Last Train From Hiroshima‘, as soon as he is done with the production of the next ‘Avatar’ films. Here’s all we know about his ongoing efforts behind this exciting project.
James Cameron Is Taking The Next Big Step Towards The Next ‘Avatar’ Fim
James Cameron recently told Deadline that both works of fiction by renowned author Nicky Pellegrino will be adopted as one “uncompromising theatrical film”. It will be Cameron’s first non-Avatar movie since 1997’s Oscar-winning title ‘Titanic’.
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“It’s a subject that I’ve wanted to do a film about, that I’ve been wrestling with how to do it, over the years,” Cameron told Deadline. “I met Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a survivor of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, just days before he died. He was in the hospital. He was handing the baton of his personal story to us, so I have to do it. I can’t turn away from it,” he added. While visiting Yamaguchi, Cameron and Pellegrino pledged to “pass on his unique and harrowing experience to future generations.”
The film will be called ‘The Last Train from Hiroshima’ — same as Pellegrino’s 2015 book. The author’s upcoming book, ‘The Ghosts of Hiroshima’ will be published by Blackstone Publishing in August 2025. The date also marks the 80th anniversary of the bomb dropping in Japan during World War II.
What Will ‘The Ghosts Of Hiroshima’ Be About?
‘The Ghosts Of Hiroshima‘ will focus on the true events of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks, portrayed through the story of a man in Japan from World War II who survived the atomic bomb drop in Hiroshima, got on a train to Nagasaki, and then survived the nuclear explosion in that city too.
Both Pellegrino’s book draws attention to the voices of the bomb survivors and the new science of forensic technology. The author has written the aftermath of the two days in August of 1945 with great detail when the nuclear bombs turned Japan upside down and changed life on Earth forever. At the core of both books are the eyewitnesses of the events that experienced the bomb dropping.
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Cameron’s fear of the nuclear explosion has been portrayed in his other iconic works including ‘The Terminator‘ and ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day,’ which has been stuck in his mind since he watched the Cuban Missile Crisis unfold when he was just 8 years old.
