James Cameron's Next Project May Be About Hiroshima

[RamboLiberal]

While "Avatar" continues to clean up at the box office, James Cameron may have signaled his next move as a director this week by buying the rights to "The Last Train From Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back," an upcoming non-fiction book by Charles Pellegrino, the Guardian reports.

This news follows on the heels of reports that Cameron visited with Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who was identified last March as the first certified survivor of both U.S. atomic bombings of Japan during World War II, about a possible film project while in Japan last month doing promotion for "Avatar." Yamaguchi died this week at the age of 93, and is still the only person recognized as a survivor of both attacks. He was remembered by the mayor of Nagasaki as a "precious storyteller."

Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip on Aug. 6, 1945, when a U.S. B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the city. He suffered serious burns to his upper body and spent the night in the city. He then returned to his hometown of Nagasaki just in time for the second attack, city officials said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/08/james-camerons-next-proje_n_416770.html

[ZombieHorde]

1. Sounds interesting.

I have read the book Hiroshima, but I have not read The Last Train From Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back.

[arcadian]

2. A-bomb to end WWII defenders in 3... 2... 1...

...aaaaaand awaaaaay weeeeeee gooooooo!

[Bolo Boffin]

3. Wow.

Cameron could do some real good with that book.

ETA: Kurosawa's Rhapsody in August is a great movie on this subject, too (a survivor of Nagasaki). Richard Gere is kind of stumbling around in it, but the overall story is great.

[Bonobo]

5. Gere destroyed it for me. His Japanese pronunciation? Horrible!!! nt

[Bolo Boffin]

6. Well, on that

The character himself would have been stumbling around and have a bad accent. I can see Gere trying to stay out of the way and not fuck things up too much, so I forgave him. Plus, I couldn't tell how bad he was mangling Japanese! :D So he didn't spoil the rest of it for me. Oh, FSM, I'm about to cry right now thinking about that last sequence!

[greennina]

4. Maybe this will be enough to shame Obama into...

finaly doing something about those horrible things. So far he has betrayed us and done nothing.