Shockwave | Cary Fukunaga

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A recent Wall St. Journal interview with No Time to Die director Cary Joji Fukunaga has revealed that Oscar winner Tom Stoppard has come on write the script for Shockwave, Fukunaga’s upcoming movie about the atomic bomb that America dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in August 1945.

The project, which has been in development at Universal for several years, is based on Stephen Walker‘s non-fiction book Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima, which offers a historical account of the days leading up to the nuclear strike that devastated Japan and ushered in the nuclear age. Walker’s book begins three weeks earlier and tells the stories of the Manhattan Project scientists who created the nuclear weapon in the New Mexico desert, the pilots who deployed the bomb, the Japanese victims on the ground, and the world leaders behind that fateful day, including President Truman.

Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce Shockwave via their Working Title Films banner, which initially developed the project with Drive scribe Hossein Amini. °°°