James Cameron will adapt Charles Pellegrino’s book Ghosts of Hiroshima after Avatar sequels

James Cameron will combine Ghosts and Pellegrino’s 2015 book “Last Train from Hiroshima” into one film, which he will shoot when the “Avatar” production schedule allows.

The film will show the true story of a Japanese man who survived two nuclear explosions during World War II. After witnessing the Hiroshima explosion, he boarded a train to Nagasaki and was exposed to another explosion.

Pellegrino was Cameron’s science advisor on both the “Avatar” and “Titanic” films, and Cameron has been interested in bringing the story to the big screen for 20 years.

Cameron has directed the Terminator franchise and Aliens, as well as three of the top four most successful films of all time, Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water, and Titanic.

The project will be Cameron’s first non-‘Avatar’ franchise project as a narrative feature director since 1997, when he released ‘Titanic’ starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.

His other notable works are ‘The Abyss’ and ‘True Lies’. His documentary projects include ‘Ghosts of the Abyss’, ‘Aliens of the Deep’ and ‘Expedition: Bismarck’. ‘Avatar: Fire and Ashes’ is an upcoming science fiction film co-produced, co-edited, co-written and directed by James Cameron, Variety reported.

Meanwhile, the next film in James Cameron’s Avatar franchise will hit theaters on December 19, 2025. The official title of the third Avatar film is Avatar: Fire and Ashes. Avatar (2009) holds the record for the highest-grossing film of all time. Its sequel, Avatar: Way of Water, will be released in December 2022.

,With inputs from ANI,