When James Cameron directed Avatar in 2009, he somehow set a trap for himself that would mortgage him for the following decades. By delving into the incredible world of Pandora, Cameron got carried away and announced not one or two, but three sequels… and to this day, only the second part has been released.
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Subscribe (it's FREE) ►With Avatar 3 scheduled for December 2025 and Avatar 4 for 2029, Cameron is committed to his saga until then. And, in fact, there are also many possibilities that there will be a fifth part. However, the filmmaker behind Titanic has already started working on what he will do after Avatar… and it is not precisely something smaller than what he has done so far.
A Legacy to Protect
As reported by Deadline, James Cameron has acquired the rights to the work of writer Charles Pellegrino, specifically his books Last Train From Hiroshima (2015) and the upcoming novel Ghosts of Hiroshima (scheduled for 2025). Under the title Last Train From Hiroshima, the film will tell the incredible true story of Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a man who, after surviving the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, traveled to Nagasaki, where he also survived the bomb that fell on the city three days later.
The reason why Cameron wants to make this movie is not trivial. The filmmaker met Tsutomu Yamaguchi himself just a few days before he died in hospital in 2010. Both he and Pellegrino received the authority of the man to tell their story.
“He was passing on the baton of his personal story to us, so I have to do it. Convey his unique and heartbreaking experience to future generations,” says Cameron. Without a doubt, there is a lot of anticipation to see the director’s touch after Avatar, and the project couldn’t look better.
