To say that James Cameron has been busy since 1997’s Titanic became the highest-grossing movie of all time is an understatement. Over a decade later the acclaimed filmmaker pushed the boundaries of new technology with his 3-D sci-fi epic Avatar, which topped his disaster movie as the biggest ever with almost $3 billion worldwide. Having briefly been eclipsed by Avengers Endgame, the behemoth has since retaken the top spot and remains there to his day.
Since then, the billionaire Canadian has been working on his four Avatar sequels, with the first Avatar: The Way of Water hitting cinemas in 2022 and becoming the third highest-grossing film of all time with $2.3 billion. Avatar: Fire and Ash is set to follow in 2025, then Avatar 4 in 2029 and Avatar 5 in 2031, but Cameron has now announced that he still has time to fit in a new World War II movie.
Cameron’s Last Train From Hiroshima, his first non-Avatar movie since 1997’s Titanic, will shoot “as soon as Avatar production permits”. This could mean as late as the early 2030s, but we’d presume he’ll manage to fit it in at some point before then. After all, he’s also planning on handing the baton of Avatar 6 and 7 to another director.
So what’s the World War II movie about? It follows the true story of a man who in 1945 survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the US to force Japanese surrender, got a train to Nagasaki and survived that second nuclear explosion too. The film will be based on two of Charle.