Filmmaker Cary Fukunaga ("True Detective,"
"Beasts of No Nation") is in talks to helm the film adaptation of
Stephen Walker's non-fiction book Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima for
Universal Pictures.
"A riveting, minute-by-minute account of the
momentous event that changed our world forever
On a quiet Monday morning in August 1945, a five-ton
bomb—dubbed Little
Boy by its
creators—was dropped from an American plane onto the Japanese city of
Hiroshima. On that day, a firestorm of previously unimagined power was
unleashed on a vibrant metropolis of 300,000 people, leaving one third of its
population dead, its buildings and landmarks incinerated. It was the terrifying
dawn of the Atomic Age, spawning decades of paranoia, mistrust, and a
widespread and very real fear of the potential annihilation of the human race.
Author Stephen Walker brilliantly re-creates the three
terrible weeks leading up to the wartime detonation of the atomic bomb—from the
first successful test in the New Mexico desert to the cataclysm and its
aftermath—presenting the story through the eyes of pilots, scientists, civilian
victims, and world leaders who stood at the center of earth-shattering drama.
It is a startling, moving, frightening, and remarkable portrait of an
extraordinary event—a shockwave whose repercussions can be felt to this very
day."
Drive screenwriter Hossein Amini is in negotiations to
pen the script, with Working Title's Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Liza Chasin
set to produce.
Fukunaga is next set to direct the Netflix original series
Maniac with Emma Stone and Jonah Hill starring. The project is schedule to go
into production this August and end in November. The filmmaker is also attached
to direct Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon film for HBO, and the Alexander Dumas
biopic The Black Count.
Amini and Fukunaga previously worked together on the script
for the TNT series The Alienist, which was adapted from Caleb Carr's novel of
the same name.
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