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James Cameron has finally cleared the air on his long-developing WWII drama Ghosts of Hiroshima, and the update is… not encouraging. Speaking on The Town with Matt Belloni, the director admitted the project isn’t just delayed — it’s nowhere near happening.
“I have 10 other projects. That one just sort of hit the headlines briefly because of the book announcement and trying to push the book to a best seller because the author is a friend of mine. Doesn’t mean I’m not going to make the film, but I’ve written the script, and it’s not slated right now, and I don’t even have a distribution partner on it. So it’s pretty much a vaporware project right now.”
It’s a surprisingly blunt assessment, especially since the filmmaker had spoken earlier this year about just how ambitious the film might be. In an interview with Discussing Film’s Andrew J. Salazar, Cameron said Ghosts of Hiroshima “might be the most challenging film” he’ll ever make — a huge claim from the director whose sets include the doomed RMS Titanic, Pandora’s alien ecosystems, and a time-traveling robot apocalypse (more than once).
What Ghosts of Hiroshima Would Have Been
Cameron acquired the rights in 2024 to Charles Pellegrino’s non-fiction book, which finally released this past August. Pellegrino isn’t new to Cameron’s world — he consulted on Avatar: The Way of Water and Titanic — and his book chronicles survivors of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear attacks.
If the film moves forward someday, Cameron has already described the dramatic spine: the true story of Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a man who survived the bombing of Hiroshima, escaped, boarded a train to Nagasaki… and arrived just before the second bomb fell. (Cameron cited Yamaguchi’s story in a conversation with Jake’s Takes.) Cameron previously told Deadline that Pellegrino’s manuscript covers an enormous historical landscape, but he wants the film to be intensely focused:
“I made a decision around this. Charlie’s book explores a subject with tendrils that run in all directions and he sometimes finds the most amazing connections throughout society and throughout history. I want to keep it very focused on the day of the two bombs and the immediate aftermath. It's two bombs, multiple witnesses and survivors.”
He added that he wouldn’t soften the horror:
“This may be a movie that I make that makes the least of any movie I've ever made, because I'm not going to be sparing, I’m not going to be circumspect. I want to do for what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki what Steven Spielberg did with the Holocaust and D-Day with Saving Private Ryan. He showed it the way it happened.”
Cameron's next movie, Avatar: Fire and Ash, arrives later this month.
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