James Cameron says goodbye to science fiction and Avatar: this is his surprising new project

In the Hollywood business, planning is essential. Putting together a film project takes money, and time, and top directors often have particularly tight schedules for five years, or even a decade. A good example of this is the celebrated director of Terminator and Titanic, James Cameron, one of the highest grossing in history.

For the past few years, his work has revolved almost exclusively around the saga Avatar (it still remains that way), but the creative already has his next projects in mind, which, as he himself has declared in an exclusive interview with Deadlinewill take it far beyond science fiction and its blue aliens. In fact, they will not be fantastical at all.

James Cameron beyond Avatar

If James Cameron has proven anything throughout his career in Hollywood, it is that he is a true master when it comes to bringing exciting science fiction stories to the big screen, a genre in which he has felt right at home. He proved it with Terminatorand then with Aliens: The Returnor the less mythical but also remembered Abyss. Avatar has only confirmed it.

But over the years, James Cameron has also shown that fantasy hasn’t been the only thing that has motivated his talent for storytelling. In fact, If there is a film for which he will always be remembered, it will surely be none other than TitanicIn it, the director demonstrated what another of his great passions is: the great disasters in the history of humanity.

And following that line, what greater disaster could have existed, from a dramatic point of view, than the bombs that the United States dropped on Japan at the end of World War II? It is true that this is a subject that has already been dealt with a lot in the cinema, and from very different perspectives (the last, Oppenheimer); but there were already Titanic movies before Titanic.

As he himself has stated, the next film after Avatar by James Cameron will be based on two books by Charles Pellegrino, Last Train From Hiroshima (2015) and Ghosts of HiroshimaBoth novels tell the astonishing story of Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a Japanese man who survived the bombing of Hiroshima, traveled to Nagasaki, and also managed to live to tell the tale.

James Cameron’s vision of Hiroshima

In fact, as Cameron himself tells it, what happened in Yamaguchi’s life bears similarities to what happened to the survivors of the most famous shipwreck of all time, the Titanic. In 2010, Cameron and the author of the two novels, Pellegrino, had the opportunity to meet Yamaguchi himself, who told them his story.

Since then, James Cameron has wanted to bring this impossible experience to the big screen. And now, with the supposed end of his work on Avatar ever closer on the horizon, the director wants to put science fiction aside for good and return to history. To one of its most terrifying pages.

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