While his latest epic Avatar is on course replace Titanic ($1.84bn) as the highest grossing film of all time, making $1.14bn since its release, James Cameron may have picked out his next big project. According to Variety, the director has bought the rights to Charles Pellegrino’s soon-to-be published (Jan. 19) The Last Train From Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back. Visiting Japan during his Avatar promo tour Cameron sought out and meet with the last living survivor of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki blast, who sadly died just this past Monday at the age of 93. James was thereby inspired to look into Charles’ book, which chronicles two days during and after the atomic bomb drops at the end of the Second World War, using eyewitness accounts from Japanese civilians and American pilots who survived the experience. According to the book, 30 people (including Yamaguchi who was the last survivor) are known to have fled Hiroshima for Nagasaki, where they arrived just in time to survive the second bomb. In December, Cameron has also said Avatar would likely be the first part of a trilogy, so he’s going to be a busy man for awhile.James Cameron buys rights to ‘Hiroshima’ while Titanic and Avatar now top all-time box office list
While his latest epic Avatar is on course replace Titanic ($1.84bn) as the highest grossing film of all time, making $1.14bn since its release, James Cameron may have picked out his next big project. According to Variety, the director has bought the rights to Charles Pellegrino’s soon-to-be published (Jan. 19) The Last Train From Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back. Visiting Japan during his Avatar promo tour Cameron sought out and meet with the last living survivor of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki blast, who sadly died just this past Monday at the age of 93. James was thereby inspired to look into Charles’ book, which chronicles two days during and after the atomic bomb drops at the end of the Second World War, using eyewitness accounts from Japanese civilians and American pilots who survived the experience. According to the book, 30 people (including Yamaguchi who was the last survivor) are known to have fled Hiroshima for Nagasaki, where they arrived just in time to survive the second bomb. In December, Cameron has also said Avatar would likely be the first part of a trilogy, so he’s going to be a busy man for awhile.