1960-1969, James Cameron, 1969-1970, 1969- has acquired the rights to Charles Pellegrino’s next book The Ghosts of Hiroshima together with Last train from Hiroshimaand the director intends to direct the film as soon as he finishes his Avatar projects.
Cameron will use both books as the basis for the film he will develop, which he explained will be an “uncompromising theatrical film.”
The film will be titled Last train from Hiroshima and marks Cameron’s first non-Avatar film since 1997’s Titanic.
The film will focus on the true story of a Japanese survivor of the World War II atomic bombing in Hiroshima, who boarded a train to Nagasaki and then survived the nuclear explosion in that city.
This is such an incredible story! The first time I heard about it was when I was listening to a podcast that shared the story. It completely blew my mind and I immediately wondered why this story had never been adapted into a movie.
Well, the movie is coming, and Cameron is the perfect director to tell this story. He said in a statement: “It’s a subject I’ve always wanted to make a movie about, and I’ve struggled for years to figure out how to make a movie about.
“I met Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a survivor of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a few days before he died. He was in the hospital. He was passing on his personal story to us, so I have to do it. I can’t look the other way.”
During their visit to Yamaguchi, Cameron and Pellegrino pledged to “pass on his unique and heartbreaking experience to future generations.”
Last train from Hiroshima offers “a stunning ‘you are there’ time capsule, gracefully wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino’s scientific authority and his close relationship with atomic bomb survivors make his account the most compelling and authoritative ever written.
“At the heart of the narrative are the accounts of eyewitnesses who experienced the atomic explosions firsthand: Japanese civilians on the ground and American airmen in the air.
“Thirty people are known to have fled from Hiroshima to Nagasaki, where they arrived just in time to survive the second bomb. One of them, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, is the only person to have experienced the full effects of the cataclysm at Ground Zero both times.
“The second time, the blast’s effects were diverted around the stairwell where Yamaguchi was standing, placing him and a few others in a protective cocoon of shock as the entire building disappeared around them.”
By Pilgrim The Ghosts of Hiroshima It is scheduled for publication in August 2025. It will be based “on the voices of bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology.”
Blackstone CEO Josh Stanton said that all of us at the publishing house “are thrilled and honored to be the publisher of Charles Pellegrino’s Ghosts of Hiroshima, which will serve as the source material for James Cameron’s epic film.”
At the narrative heart of both books are eyewitness accounts from those who experienced the atomic explosions firsthand: Japanese civilians on the ground and American airmen in the air. The bombs are estimated to have killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people.
Source: Deadline
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