After Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer broke records at the box office, James Cameron is working on a nuclear war film of his own — and he’s taking a different approach.
While discussing his plan to direct a film about the atomic bomb based on Charles Pellegrino’s upcoming book, Ghosts of Hiroshima, Cameron, 70, said he was surprised by some of Nolan’s decisions regarding scenes that were not explored in Oppenheimer.
“Yeah … it’s interesting what he stayed away from,” Cameron told Deadline on Friday, June 27, when asked if he was shocked by Oppenheimer’s global success and Oscar wins despite not touching on the stories of those who were affected by the atomic bombs. “Look, I love the filmmaking, but I did feel that it was a bit of a moral cop out.”
He continued, “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. 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.”
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Oppenheimer starred Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, who assembled a team of scientists and physicists to develop an atomic bomb during World War II and conduct the Trinity test, the world’s first nuclear explosion. President Harry S. Truman called for the detonation of two bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the test was successful. The August 6, 1945, and August 9, 1945, bombings killed hundreds of thousands of people, including those who experienced health issues from the radiation.
After Oppenheimer’s release, Nolan, 54, was criticized for choosing not to show the impact the atomic bombs had on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He defended the decision to focus on the life of Oppenheimer instead of the lives of those his nuclear weapons impacted.
Christopher Nolan Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for DGA“The film presents Oppenheimer’s experience subjectively,” Nolan told Variety in November 2023. “It was always my intention to rigidly stick to that. Oppenheimer heard about the bombing at the same time that the rest of the world did. I wanted to show somebody who is starting to gain a clearer picture of the unintended consequences of his actions. It was as much about what I don’t show as what I show.”
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Cameron said that he will “put up” his hand to be the one who tells the story of those who were impacted by nuclear warfare.
“I’ll do it, Chris. No problem. You come to my premiere and say nice things … I can’t tell you today what’s going to be in the movie,” he said. “I’ve been making notes for 15 years and I haven’t written a word of the script yet because there’s a point where it’s all there and then you start to write. That’s how I always work. I explore around, I remember the things that impact me. I start to assemble ’em into a narrative. And then there’s a moment where you’re ready to write. And I’m not in that head space right now.”
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