Director of the highest-grossing films in history, “Titanic” and “Avatar,” James Cameron, has bought the rights to American writer Charles Pellegrino’s long-awaited book, “Ghosts of Hiroshima,” Deadline reported.
“The Oscar-winning director intends to use it and Pellegrino’s 2015 book ‘Last Train from Hiroshima’ as the basis for a film he will direct,” – says the message.
Both books are based on eyewitness accounts from people who personally experienced atomic explosions: Japanese civilians on the ground and American pilots in the air.
The film is tentatively titled after the 2015 book “Last Train from Hiroshima.” It will tell the true story of a Japanese man who survived the nuclear explosion in Hiroshima, took a train to Nagasaki and survived another nuclear explosion there.
Pellegrino’s book Ghosts of Hiroshima will be published in August 2025.
“This is a subject I wanted to make a film about and struggled with for years on how to do it.” – said the director.
Let us recall that in August 1945, American pilots dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The atomic explosion and its aftermath killed 140,000 people out of a population of 350,000 in Hiroshima and 74,000 in Nagasaki. The vast majority of the victims of the atomic bombs were civilians. On the anniversary of the tragic events, on August 6 and 9, “Peace Ceremonies” are held annually in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
