Director James Cameron says his film about Hiroshima and Nagasaki is ‘a sacred duty’

Director James Cameron says his film about Hiroshima and Nagasaki is ‘a sacred duty’

Film director James Cameron tells CNN’s Christiane Amanpour he is adapting the book, “Ghosts of Hiroshima” by Charles Pellegrino into a film that he “has to make” partly because of a pledge he made to Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

Cameron's "Hiroshima" Won't Get Political

“Avatar” filmmaker James Cameron says that his upcoming film adaptation of the book “Ghosts of Hiroshima” is going to be an apolitical affair. Cameron plans to use Charles Pellegrino’s just-released non-fiction book as the basis for a film of the same name and will mark his first non-Avatar directorial effort since 1997’s “Titanic”. The work focuses on Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a Japanese man who survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima, got on a train t…

James Cameron announces powerful new film that will depict the devastating reality of the Hiroshima bombing in Japan - TDPel Media

We’ve seen James Cameron show us the end of the world before—robots taking over, nuclear blasts wiping out cities, humanity on the brink. But now, the director known for Terminator and Titanic is taking on something very real, very raw, and very human: the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. His upcoming film, described as “intense,” will be based on the book Ghosts of Hiroshima, which draws from over 200 interviews with survivors of both the Hiroshima…