Variety has learned that the director is interested in covering the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Currently, Cameron is optioning the book The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back, written by Charles Pelligrino, which will be released on January 19.
The book recounts stories of survivors of the atomic bombings of the two Japanese towns during the Second World War. Apparently, after the Hiroshima bombing, thirty people were sent to Nagasaki, and arrived at the same time that the second atomic bomb went off.
Last December, when he was in Japan promoting Avatar, James Cameron met with Tsutomu Yamaguchi, one of the last survivors, and the only one who lived through the two bombings. The man died on Monday (January 4) at the age of 93.
At the moment, no studio has been tagged with the film project, and Cameron has been enjoying the success of Avatar, which has been named the second most lucrative film in history, just behind Titanic, which was also directed by Cameron.
The first atomic bomb was detonated in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 by the US military, resulting in 75 000 people dead, without counting several others who died in the weeks that followed. The total number of deaths was approximately 250 000. Three days later, on August 9, 1945, the town of Nagasaki suffered a similar fate with an equally grave number of deaths.