James Cameron attacks the vision of Oppenheimer of Christopher Nolan

“The film avoids the subject” according to the director of Avatar, who himself is working on the history of the atomic bomb, seen from Japan.

While he has worked in recent years – in parallel withAvatar – on an adaptation of the book The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Lost Book,, James Cameron recently criticized the way Christopher Nolan addressed the moral question in Oppenheimer.

In an interview with Deadlinethe director of Titanic And Avatar praised the staging of the film with multiple Oscars, while regretting a certain complacency on the substance:

“I love the realization, but I found that the film took a little moral escape. It is not as if Robert Oppenheimer did not know what would be the effects of the bomb. There is a very brief scene where he sees calcined bodies in the public, and then the film continues by showing how it has turned it up. But for me, the film avoids the subject.”

And Cameron to continue, pointing to an assumed or dictated choice:

“I don’t know if it’s the studio or Chris who judged that it was a red line not to cross, but I want to go straight to the red line. I’m just silly like that.”

Know aware that Nolan said it was not “the right film to tell this story”, Cameron replied with humor: “Ok, I’m raising my hand. I’m going to do it, Chris. No problem. You come to my preview and you say nice things …”

It’s been over 15 years that Cameron reflect on this adaptation of The Last Train from Hiroshima of Charles R. Pellegrino. A book he had officially optionized in 2010. He originally hoped to shoot this film before Avatar 4but the titanic site of the saga forced him to repel writing. “I have been taking notes for 15 years, I haven’t written a line yet. I still work like that. I let mature, I assemble the ideas, then at one point, I’m ready to write. This is not yet the case.”

The novel traces the events experienced in Hiroshima and Nagasaki before, during and after the atomic bombings, through the eyes of several survivors – especially Tsutomu Yamaguchithe only man officially recognized for having survived the two nuclear explosions.