Overview

• Cameron called Oppenheimer a “moral cop-out,” arguing Nolan only offers a fleeting glimpse of charred bodies before shifting back to J. Robert Oppenheimer’s perspective.
• He is in early development on Ghosts of Hiroshima, a film adaptation of Charles Pellegrino’s upcoming book that combines forensic archaeology with interviews of survivors and their families.
• Cameron says his production will directly depict the experiences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims, tackling the “third rail” of nuclear warfare that he believes Nolan avoided.
• Christopher Nolan has defended his approach as an intentionally subjective portrayal that limits on-screen treatment of the bomb’s aftermath to reflect Oppenheimer’s personal reckoning.
• Timed for the 80th anniversary of the 1945 attacks, Cameron’s project follows precedents like Saving Private Ryan in aiming for unflinching realism and communal memory.