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James Cameron claims that Ghosts of Hiroshima, the upcoming atomic bomb book that he says he’ll be adapting into a movie, will be as unflinching as films such as Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan.
Despite the fact that James Cameron has spent the better part of the last quarter century making his Avatar movies, the acclaimed director says he’ll be directing a film adaptation of Ghosts of Hiroshima, a book written by Charles Pellegrino that’s being released on August 5.
The story of Ghosts of Hiroshima follows a man who survived the Hiroshima atomic blast and then went to Nagasaki and survived the nuclear explosion there, too.
James Cameron compares his atomic bomb movie to Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan
According to Cameron, the movie he’s planning on making will be as “unsparing” in its depiction of the nuclear bomb atrocities as Schindler’s List was with concentration camps and Saving Private Ryan was with the battles of World War II.
James Cameron says his film ‘GHOSTS OF HIROSHIMA’ will be “unsparing” in depicting the atrocities of what happened during the atomic blasts.
He compares it to doing what Steven Spielberg did with ‘SAVING PRIVATE RYAN’ & ‘SCHINDLER’S LIST’
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You can check out the official trailer for the Ghosts of Hiroshima, narrated by Martin Sheen, below.
Exclusive trailer for ‘GHOSTS OF HIROSHIMA’, the book James Cameron will adapt into a film
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Earlier this summer, Cameron took some shots at how Christopher Nolan portrayed the devastation of the atomic bomb in his Best Picture and Best Director-winning film Oppenheimer, calling it a “moral copout.”
“Look, I love the filmmaking. But I did feel that it was a bit of a moral cop out. Because it’s not like Oppenheimer didn’t know the effects. He’s got one brief scene in the film where we see — and I don’t like to criticize another filmmaker’s film — but there’s only one brief moment where he sees some charred bodies in the audience and then the film goes on to show how it deeply moved him. But I felt that it dodged the subject,” Cameron said in a recent interview with Deadline.
“I don’t know whether the studio or Chris felt that that was a third rail that they didn’t want to touch, but I want to go straight at the third rail. I’m just stupid that way.”
Cameron’s next movie, Avatar: Fire and Ash — the third film in the Avatar franchise — is scheduled to hit theaters later this year on December 19. Earlier this week, the trailer for the film was screened to journalists.
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