James Cameron takes aim at Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer:' 'It dodged'

James Cameron did not hold back while articulating his thoughts on Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. 

For the unversed, Charles R. Pellegrino’s novel Ghosts of Hiroshima will be out on August 5, 2025, a day before marking the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. 

Notably, America dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki on August 9 the same year.  

In an interview with Deadline, the 70-year-old Canadian filmmaker revealed that the forthcoming book will become his project, as he will deal with the subject in a different manner as compared to what Nolan did in his Oscar-winning movie Oppenheimer in 2023.  

Cameron said the 54-year-old director of Interstellar took “a bit of a moral cop-out” because of “what he stayed away from” in his narrative. 

Referring to Nolan, the Titanic creator explained, “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,” Cameron asserted. 

The Avatar director went on to share that he has 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,” James Cameron stated.