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James Cameron Has Announced His 1st Scripted Film (That Isn’t an ‘Avatar’ Project) Since ‘Titanic’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: The last time James Cameron made a scripted movie that
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  Speaker 2: didn't have the word Avatar in the title, it was
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  Speaker 2: a little movie you may have heard of, called Titanic.
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  Speaker 2: But he's just announced his next film, once he wraps
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  Speaker 2: up work on the Avatar franchise, it will be called
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  Speaker 2: Last Train from Hiroshima, and like Titanic, it'll be based
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  Speaker 2: on historical events, adapting two nonfiction books into a singular movie,
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  Speaker 2: the first by the same name, the other from the
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  Speaker 2: upcoming Ghosts of Hiroshima. It tells the harrowing true story
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  Speaker 2: of a Japanese man who survived the atomic bomb at
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  Speaker 2: Hiroshima in World War Two, only to take a train
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  Speaker 2: to Nagasaki, where the second bomb was dropped and he
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  Speaker 2: miraculously lived to tell the tale. James tells a deadline.
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  Speaker 2: It's a subject that I've wanted to do a film
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  Speaker 2: about that I've been wrestling with how to do it
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  Speaker 2: over the years. It's unclear when Cameron's schedule will be
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  Speaker 2: fully clear on Avatar responsibilities, but he's reportedly already begun
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  Speaker 2: work on the script adaptation
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  Speaker 1: That's Direct from Hollywood.