James Cameron’s long-held idea may finally become a reality. The acclaimed filmmaker and current box office favorite recently informed the Los Angeles Times that he still plans to create a film based on Charles R. Pellegrino’s 2010 book The Last Train From Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back. To be sure, Cameron voiced his desire to make the contentious item a feature when it was first published. He and Pellegrino also met Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the book’s main character, a month before his death in 2010.
Yamaguchi, a naval engineer, escaped the World War II atomic blasts in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Unfortunately, the picture was blocked from time to time, but the director of The Terminator did not give up. James Cameron, who has a net worth of $720 million, recently told the Los Angeles Times that he still intends to make movies in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
“Will be as relevant as ever,” James Cameron said of the upcoming Hiroshima film.
Cameron admitted to Jordan Riefe of the Los Angeles Times that the Hiroshima movie based on The Last Train From Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back is still his dream project, even more than a decade after the book was published. He explained why the film would be relevant in today’s situation by referring to the Ukraine-Russia conflict and rising nationalism. Cameron said, “
“We live in a more dangerous world than we believe… I believe the Hiroshima picture will be just as important, if not more. It serves as a reminder of what these weapons are capable of when used on humans.”
A Hiroshima film, admittedly, is consistent with James Cameron’s cinematic and aesthetic approach. Almost all of Cameron’s films show the constant conflict between nature, humans, and intelligent robots, as well as corporate greed and the rich, with strong female characters and romance subplots driving the story.
This may be the topic of the director’s big project once it gets underway.
But, the Canadian director won’t be able to document the Hiroshima-Nagasaki blast anytime soon as he is currently working on Avatar 3, the third installment in the critically and financially successful trilogy. Avatar: The Way of Water, the second installment, is now a box office hit. The film, directed by James Cameron, has grossed $2.245 billion (and counting) on a budget of $350-460 million. His Titanic also made a lot of money when it was re-released on February 10, 2023.
For now, if you want to brush up on your Hiroshima-Nagasaki knowledge, go to Netflix or other platforms to watch some of the best movies/documentaries made about the disaster, including White Light, Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2007), Events The Greatest of WWII in Color (2019), and Fat Man and Little Boy (1989), among others.
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Source: SCHOOL TRANG DAI
