EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can reveal that Oscar-winning filmmakerJames Cameronhas purchased the rights toCharles Pellegrinos forthcoming bookGhosts of Hiroshima.
Cameron shared with Deadline that the two nonfiction books will be adapted into one uncompromising theatrical film.
It will mark Camerons first non-Avatarfilm since 1997s Oscar-winningTitanic.
(L-R) Charles Pellegrino, Tsutomu Yamaguchi and James CameronHideo Nakamura
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PellegrinosGhosts of Hiroshimawill be published by Blackstone Publishing in August 2025.
That marks the 80th anniversary of the dropping of the bomb in 1945.
Both of Pellegrinos books draw on the voices of bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology.
The bombs are estimated to have killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people.
I metTsutomu Yamaguchi, a survivor of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, just days before he died.
He was in the hospital.
He was handing the baton of his personal story to us, so I have to do it.
I cant turn away from it.
While visiting Yamaguchi, Cameron and Pellegrino pledged to pass on his unique and harrowing experience to future generations.
Pellegrino, the author of more than 30 books, served as a science consultant to Cameron onTitanicandAvatar.
Blackstone also published the audio book ofOppenheimer, which became a No.
1 New York Times bestseller.
The Story Factory just scored its 32ndNew York Times bestseller when T.J. NewmansWorst Case Scenariohit the lists.
The company also made the deal for Michael MannsHeat 2, which debuted as a No.
1 New York Times bestseller and is set at Warner Bros as Manns next film.
