Film on Man Who Survived 2 Atom Bomb Attacks to be Made by James Cameron

James Cameron of ‘Titanic’ and ‘Avatar’ fame has decided to make a movie on the life of a Japanese man who survived two atomic bombings during World War II.

According to ‘Variety’, Cameron has acquired the rights to Charles Pellegrino’s forthcoming book, ‘Ghosts of Hiroshima’, which he plans to adapt for the movie along with Pellegrino’s earlier book, ‘Last Train From Hiroshima’.

The man on whose life this movie will be based not only survived atom bomb attack on Hiroshima, he also boarded a train to Nagasaki, only to face another catastrophic atom bomb explosion.

James Cameron has earlier collaborated with Pellegrino as a science consultant on both ‘Avatar’ and ‘Titanic’.

It will be Cameron’s first narrative feature project outside the ‘Avatar’ franchise since ‘Titanic’ in 1997.

Camron is also remembered for the ‘Terminator’ series and the epic ‘Aliens’.