James Cameron meets Japanese atomic bomb survivor to discuss film
Avatar director James Cameron has met with a Japanese atomic bomb survivor to discuss making a film about nuclear weapons.
The filmmaker – whose latest 3D blockbuster has grossed more than $1billion worldwide – met with 93-year-old Tsutomu Yamaguchi in Nagasaki on December 22.
Yamaguchi is one of the few people to have survived both of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Cameron visited Yamaguchi, who is fighting cancer, in a hospital in Nagasaki.
The Titanic director was accompanied by author Charles Pellegrino, whose book about the bombings titled The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back will be released January 19.
“I think it’s Cameron’s and Pellegrino’s destiny to make a film about nuclear weapons,” Yamaguchi said.
Cameron reportedly told Yamaguchi that he wanted to visit him so he could pass on his rare and harrowing experience to future generations.
According to Japanese reports, Cameron recalled witnessing the Cuban Missile Crisis when he was eight and told Yamaguchi that the threat of nuclear war was burned into his mind.
Although Cameron’s idea for the film has not been finalised, the director reportedly told Yamaguchi that it would be ‘uncompromising’ if production went ahead.
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