James Cameron has bought the rights to Charles Pellegrino’s planned book “Ghosts of Hiroshima,” which will be released by Blackstone Publishing in August 2025 (the 80th anniversary of the bomb’s dropping in 1945). Cameron will combine and adapt “Ghosts” and Pellegrino’s 2015 book “Last Train From Hiroshima” into a single film, which he will shoot when “Avatar” is complete.
The movie is based on the true story of a Japanese man who survived two atomic bombings in World War II. He first survived the explosion in Hiroshima and then survived another blast in Nagasaki while riding a train. Pellegrino served as Cameron’s science consultant on both “Avatar” and “Titanic,” and the director has been waiting more than 20 years to adapt this tale for the big screen.
Source: Variety