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1/2: HOLLYWOOD: James Cameron to make a movie of Charlie Pellegrino's LAST TRAIN FROM HIROSHIMA. Charlie Pellegrino.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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1/2: HOLLYWOOD: James Cameron to make a movie of Charlie Pellegrino's LAST TRAIN FROM HIROSHIMA. Charlie Pellegrino.

https://tribunecontentagency.com/article/james-cameron-to-direct-last-train-from-hiroshima-once-he-finishes-avatar/1945 Hiroshima


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0:00.0

This is CBS, I on the world. I'm John Bachelor. Charles Pellegrino, the author, my good colleague, reasons to Explain Himself because He's gone Hollywood.

0:16.3

I read the Hollywood reporter within these last hours.

0:20.0

James Cameron to direct Ghosts of Hiroshima after Avatar sequels.

0:24.7

Subhead, the filmmaker has purchased the rights to Charles Pellegrino's upcoming books,

0:29.8

Book Ghosts of Hiroshima.

0:31.4

There's more to the story than just the purchase of one upcoming book to be

0:35.8

published in July of 2025 and I welcome Charles. I congratulate him for his diligence these years.

0:44.3

His publishing history begins in 2010 when he published the book entitled at the time,

0:50.0

Last Train from Hiroshima.

0:52.0

There was an error in that book. A man represented himself

0:56.3

incorrectly about where he was when the bomb was dropped in Hiroshima. And Charles

1:01.6

republished the book with corrections and additional material.

1:05.0

Some years later, it was entitled at that point to hell and back,

1:10.0

subtitle, Last Time from Eroschema.

1:12.0

Now there will be another volume, Ghosts of Eroschama,

1:15.0

which I'm looking forward to next summer.

1:17.0

However, there's a deal of story to tell

1:20.0

and to imagine how Hollywood, James Cameron, the best of the best, is going to do this, both

1:26.6

human actors and special effects to recreate the conditions that the people on the ground experience August 6th and

1:36.4

August 9th, the two attacks. Those are the only human beings we know of who have

1:41.6

experienced an atomic blast and survived.

1:45.0

Last frame for Hiroshima considers 30 individuals approximately,

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