James Cameron is planning for all times after Avatar. The filmmaker has bought the rights to the forthcoming e book Ghosts Of Hiroshima, and intends to direct a function adaptation of the atomic bomb story, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Creator Charles Pellegrino’s Ghosts Of Hiroshima arrives from Blackstone Publishing in August 2025 and follows his 2015 e book Final Practice From Hiroshima, which may even function the idea of the movie.
Cameron’s movie would partially comply with the true story of then-29 yr previous engineer Tsutomu Yamaguchi, acknowledged as the one one that survived each atomic bombs dropped on Japan throughout World Battle II. He was on enterprise in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, when the American navy bombed the town, and returned by prepare to Nagasaki the subsequent day, solely to survive its bombing on Aug. 9. It’s estimated that between 110,000 and 210,000 folks died because of the bombings.
Cameron is the largest director on this planet, recognized for the Terminator franchise and Aliens, and for steering three of the highest 4 greatest motion pictures of all time: Avatar, Avatar: the Means of Water and Titanic. The function would mark his first non-Avatar movie since 1997’s Titanic.
He’s deep into Avatar: Fireplace & Ash, which arrives in December 2025, and has two extra Avatar movies on the docket, although he has said he may step again from directing them (although that’s not definitive).
The Story Manufacturing unit’s Shane Salerno reps Pellegrino, and in addition has a detailed relationship with Cameron, as a co-writer on the Avatar sequels. Cameron is repped by CAA and Greenberg Glusker.
Deadline first reported the information of the deal.
—Etan Vlessing contributed to this story.