James Cameron Taking LAST TRAIN FROM HIROSHIMA

He brought the sinking of the Titanic to life, and, now, it appears writer/director/game changer James Cameron will soon be showing us the Hiroshima bombing.   According to Variety, Cameron has optioned the upcoming, nonfiction book, THE LAST TRAIN FROM HIROSHIMA: THE SURVIVORS LOOK BACK, written by Charles R. Pellegrino.

Pellegrino’s book coves the bombing both from the viewpoint of Japanese survivors on the ground and American airmen in the planes above.   It is scheduled to hit bookstores on January 19th.

Evidently, while in Japan promoting AVATAR, Cameron asked 20th Century Fox if he could visit with Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who, as it would happen, passed away this, past Monday.   Yamaguchi was not only one of the last, surviving people who experienced the bombing in Hiroshima, he is the only, officially recognized person to have survived the Hiroshima bombing only to flee to Nagasaki and survive that bombing, as well, three days later.

It isn’t surprising that Cameron would collaborate with Pellegrino.   The director wrote the forward to Pellegrino’s 2000 book, “Ghosts of the Titanic.”   As of this time, THE LAST TRAIN FROM HIROSHIMA is not officially set up with any studio.