“Avatar” director James Cameron has has optioned the rights to Charles Pellegrino’s upcoming nonfiction book “The Last Train From Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back” for a big-screen adaptation.

Cameron obtained the rights with his own personal funds to Pellegrino’s book. Hitting bookstores January 19th, the book takes place over a period of two days and is about eyewitness accounts of the Japanese civilians and American pilots who experienced the atomic explosions during World War 2.

No other information about the production has been released so far.

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By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: Variety)