Director James Cameron has purchased the rights to Charles Pellegrino‘s upcoming book “Ghosts of Hiroshima,” which will be published by Blackstone Publishing in August 2025 (the 80th anniversary of the bomb’s dropping in 1945).

Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron has secured the rights to Charles Pellegrino’s forthcoming book Ghosts of Hiroshima, alongside Pellegrino’s 2015 work Last Train From Hiroshima.

James Cameron has bought the rights of Charles Pellegrino's book 'Ghosts of Hiroshima'. It is being said that his next film will be based on the nuclear attack on Japan.

Last Train from Hiroshima, a new movie based on American author Charles Pellegrino's 2015 book of the same name and his forthcoming book, Ghosts of Hiroshima (August 2025), will mark James Cameron's first non-Avatar film since 1997's Titanic—the romantic disaster epic with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet that earned the director multiple Oscars during the 70th Academy Awards,

James Cameron will make Last Train From Hiroshima, a movie telling the atomic bomb story from the Japanese side, as soon as Avatar production permits.

James Cameron is planning to make a Last Train From Hiroshima movie. While Cameron is busy working on a handful of Avatar sequels, the Terminator director has also previously discussed wanting to turn the 2015 Charles Pellegrino novel,

Assuming he can dry off from all that time in the majestic waters of Pandora, Oscar-winning and Na’vi-obsessed filmmaker James Cameron is plotting his post-Avatar future—should such an opportunity afford itself.

James Cameron may soon begin work on his next big project. New movie is reportedly going to be his first non-Avatar movie after 1997's Titanic. As per reports, the Canadian filmmaker has bought the rights of Charles Pellegrino's upcoming book 'Ghosts of Hiroshima'.

A new World War II epic directed by James Cameron will be the acclaimed filmmaker's first non-Avatar movie since Titanic almost 30 years ago.