Overview

• Cameron secured rights last year to adapt Charles Pellegrino’s non-fiction book, marking his first non-Avatar feature since Titanic.
• The narrative will draw on firsthand testimonies from Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors, especially Tsutomu Yamaguchi’s double survival.
• He confirmed the script remains unfinished, no release date has been set, and filming will likely begin after Avatar: Fire and Ash.
• The director has described the film as possibly the hardest he’s ever tackled and admitted he may not feel up to the task.
• He cites Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan as tonal inspirations for blending unflinching wartime realism with poetic or spiritual depth.