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Cary Fukunaga is in talks to direct “Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima,” an adaptation of Stephen Walker’s 2005 book about the dropping of the first atomic bomb. Working Title and Universal will produce the film, THR reports.

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Screenwriter Hossein Amini, who wrote “Drive,” “Snow White and the Huntsman” and “47 Ronin” will write the script for the film. The book “Shockwave” focuses on the three weeks leading up to August 6, 1945, the day the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during World War II. The story is told from the perspective of the scientists who worked on the bomb, pilots in the war, and Japanese victims.

Erik Baiers, executive vice president of production at Universal, will oversee the project.

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Since the release of his film “Beasts of No Nation” in 2015, director Cary Fukunaga has been attached to a few different projects but all of them haven’t quite worked out. He was set to write and direct the new film version of Stephen King’s “It,” but Fukunaga left the project three weeks before production was supposed to begin citing creative differences. He was then going to direct the TNT series “The Alienist,” based upon Caleb Carr’s best selling novel, but was replaced by Jakob Verbruggen due to scheduling conflicts. But now, Fukunaga’s next project for Netflix “Maniac” has a definitive start date for this fall.

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Cary Fukunaga hasn’t really rested a moment since releasing last year’s “Beasts Of No Nation,” and while there hasn’t been much news on the film front, he’s been very busy in television. Over the past year, he’s signed up to direct Jonah Hill and Emma Stone in the TV series “Maniac,” attached himself to HBO‘s brewing miniseries take on Stanley Kubrick‘s “Napoleon,” and lending his producing powers to Ira Sachs‘ limited series “Christodora.” Meanwhile, he’s also long been set to write and direct a miniseries adaptation of Caleb Carr‘s acclaimed thriller “The Alienist” for TNT.

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