James Cameron's "uncompromising" HIROSHIMA movie

On Dec. 22nd 2009, whilst on the Japan portion of his Avatar world tour, director James Cameron visited 93 year old cancer suffer Tsutomi Yamaguchi, who until his death last week, was officially the only man left standing to have survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs. Cameron was so moved by their meeting, he made a pledge to €œpass on his rare and harrowing experience to future generations€. Cameron has since optioned Charles Pellegrino's The Last Train from Hiroshima, a non-fiction account of the two-day bombings from the survivors point of view which is released in the coming weeks, and right now he's looking into the possibilites of turning it into an "uncompromising" feature. Pellegrino accompanied Cameron on his visit to meet Yamaguchi, so he obviously had an eye on adapting the book before he had even met the war survivor, which would probably indicate that Cameron has already started research on this one. He too has spent his own money on the rights, allowing himself the freedom to pitch it to a studio when he feels the time is proper and right - and after delevering Avatar and becoming The King of the World once again - if this is what he wants to do next, a studio would be more than willing to fund it. We know Cameron, ever since growing up with the Cuban missile crisis - has been effected by the fear of war and his worry for a doomsday future was explored in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and, of course he made Avatar, a anti-war, pro-environmentalist blockbuster that despite it's mass entertainment selling point, carries as much of a political punch as we've seen in a while. If anyone in America was to make a big Hollywood picture about the effects of Hiroshima - then Cameron may just be one of the few we could trust to get it note perfect and make it the right way. Because it's Cameron, it'll be high quality, meticulously researched and as he says... uncompromising.