James Cameron Commits To Last Train From Hiroshima Movie Adaptation As Next Project<br />James Cameron Hiroshima Movie<br /><br />For the past nigh-on two decades, news of a new James Cameron movie has generally meant news of a new Avatar movie. But whilst cinema's self-proclaimed 'King Of The World' is still committed to taking audiences to the alien world of Pandora for the foreseeable future (Avatar: Fire And Ash should be here next Christmas, with at least two more sequels on the horizon), he has just added something new — and something very different — to his pipeline. Per Deadline's reporting, the Aliens and Terminator mastermind has snapped up the rights to Charles Pellegrino's upcoming historical book Ghosts Of Hiroshima, and will use that — as well as Pellegrino's previous non-fiction book The Last Train From Hiroshima — as the basis for a single feature about the atomic bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.<br /><br />Described by Cameron himself as an "uncompromising theatrical film", The Last Train From Hiroshima — which will reportedly shoot as soon as Avatar production permits — will pivot around the remarkable true story of a Japanese man who, having survived the atomic bomb drop on Hiroshima, hitched a ride to Nagasaki and survived a second nuclear blast there. And whilst we don't know specifics of the plot for Cameron's movie just yet, we do know that both of Pellegrino's books will provide a strong factual and emotional foundation for his work, incorporating as they do both the eye-witness testimony of survivors as well as recent developments in forensic archaeology. Plus, this won't be Pellegrino and Cameron's first creative collaboration, as the author has previously worked as a science consultant on both Titanic and Avatar.<br /><br />“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 revealed to 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.” Per Cameron's own words, The Last Train From Hiroshima will serve as the fulfilment of a promise to “pass on his unique and harrowing experience to future generations.”<br /><br />With the recent success and critical acclaim of Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, and the announcement back in April that Denis Villeneuve is set to tackle nuclear anxieties with a forthcoming adaptation of speculative non-fiction book Nuclear War: A Scenario, it will be interesting to see how Cameron — whose own filmography is littered with imagery that evokes the palpable threat of nuclear war — brings his unique brand of big spectacle, bigger hearted moviemaking to such a timely (and timeless) subject. But while we wait for more news on this one, The Last Train From Hiroshima is already available to buy and read
