James Cameron Acquired rights to Charles Pellegrino’s upcoming book The ghost of hiroshima together with Last train from Hiroshimathe filmmaker plans to direct the film immediately after completing the Avatar project.
Cameron will use the two books as the basis for the film he will develop, explaining that it will be an “uncompromising dramatic film.”
The film will be titled Last train from Hiroshima This is Cameron’s first non-Avatar film since 1997’s Titanic.
The film will focus on the true story of a Japanese man during World War II who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, boarded a train to Nagasaki, and then survived the nuclear blast on the city.
This is a very incredible story! The first time I became aware of it was while listening to a podcast that shared this story. It completely blew me away and I immediately wondered why this story had never been adapted into a film.
Well, the movie is coming out and Cameron is the perfect director to tell this story. “This is a film I’ve always wanted to make about this subject, and I’ve been thinking about how to do it for years,” he said in a statement.
“I met Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivor Tsutomu Yamaguchi a few days before he died. He was in the hospital. He handed us the baton of his personal story, so I had to do it. I couldn’t avoid it.
During their visit to the mountain pass, Cameron and Pellegrino pledged to “pass on his unique and painful experience to future generations”.
Last train from Hiroshima offers “a stunning ‘you were there’ time capsule, elegantly wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino’s scientific authority and close relationship with atomic bomb survivors make his narrative one of the most… A most gripping and authoritative book.
“At the heart of the story are the accounts of those who witnessed the atomic bombings – Japanese civilians on the ground and American leaflets in the air.
“It is understood that thirty people fled Hiroshima for Nagasaki, arriving just in time to survive the second atomic bombing. One of them, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, was the only person to experience the full impact of the catastrophe at Ground Zero twice. people.
“The second time, the blast effect shifted around the stairwell where Yamaguchi was standing, placing him and several others in a protective shock cocoon while the entire building around them disappeared.”
Pellegrino’s The ghost of hiroshima The book will be published in August 2025.
Blackstone CEO Josh Stanton said everyone at the imprint is “excited and honored to be the publisher of Charles Pellegrino’s The Ghost of Hiroshima, which will become James Cameron’s (James Cameron) Part of the stuff of epic movies.
At the heart of both books’ narratives are the accounts of those who witnessed the atomic bombings – Japanese civilians on the ground and American leaflets in the air. The bombs are estimated to have killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people.
Source: Deadline
