James Cameron is planning his retirement Avatar. Filmmaker buys rights to upcoming book The ghost of hiroshimaand plans to direct a feature film adapted from the story of the atomic bomb, hollywood reporter Confirmed.
By Charles Pellegrino The ghost of hiroshima Arrives in August 2025 from Blackstone Publishing and follows his 2015 book Last train from Hiroshimawhich will also serve as the basis for the movie.
Cameron’s film partly tells the true story of Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a 29-year-old engineer who is believed to be the only survivor of the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan during World War II. He was on a business trip in Hiroshima on August 6, when American troops bombed the city, and returned to Nagasaki by train the next day, only to survive the bombing on August 9. die.
Cameron is the world’s greatest director, Terminator Franchise and alienand directed three of the four biggest films of all time: Avatar, “Avatar: The Way of Water” and Titanic. The feature will mark his first non-Avatar Movies since 1997 Titanic.
he is trapped Avatar: Fire and Asheswill be available in December 2025, along with two other Avatar Movies are on the docket, although he has said he may quit directing them (although that’s not certain yet).
Shane Salerno of Story Factory represents Pellegrino and is close to Cameron and is a co-author of Story Factory. Avatar sequel. Cameron is repped by CAA and Greenberg Glusker.
deadline News of the deal was first reported.
—Etan Vlessing contributed to this story.
