James Cameron in trouble with blockbuster Avatar He doesn't have a franchise for now, but the famous Canadian director has already identified his next project.
Accordingly DeadlineCameron acquires film rights to upcoming book Ghosts of HiroshimaContinuation of the historical book from 2010 Last Train from HiroshimaThe project, which Cameron first optioned in 2010, has been something he's been passionate about for a while, but in recent years he's been busy with follow-up projects. Avatar 2022 series Avatar: The Way of Water and 2025s Avatar: Fire and Ash.
The film, like the book, will partly follow the true story of Tsutomu Yamaguchi, then 29, who is considered the only person to survive both atomic bombings dropped on Japan at the end of World War II. He was on a business trip in Hiroshima when the US bombed the city; he returned to Nagasaki by train the next day and survived the bombing there only a few days later.
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Cameron himself is excited to get the project underway. “This is something I’ve been struggling with for years, trying to make a movie about,” the director said. Deadline.
“I met Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a few days before his death. [in 2010]”He was in the hospital. He was passing the baton of his personal story to us, so I have to do this. I can't walk away from it.” Cameron and book author Charles Pellegrino promised Yamaguchi during that hospital visit that they would “pass on his unique and heartbreaking experience to future generations.”
Cameron's next movie, Avatar: Fire and AshComing to theaters on December 19, 2025.