Though it would seem as though James Cameron will spend the rest of his career cranking out Avatar entries, it would seem that another passion project is still on his mind. In fact, The Last Train From Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back could arrive once the third Avatar entry is in cinemas in 2024.
Talking to The Los Angles Times, Cameron mentioned the possibility of making the Hiroshima film — which he has been developing since he picked up the rights to Charles Pellegrino's book in 2010.
Cameron even took time out of his Avatar promotional tour in Japan the same year to visit Tsutomo Yamaguchi, who fled the destruction of the city for the relative safety of Nagasaki. And he managed to survive once more when that city was destroyed by a further atomic attack.
Of course, some will wonder what this means for the fourth and fifth instalments of the sci-fi saga, but Cameron hasn't completely ruled out the idea of someone else tackling those movies.
"I’ve got some other things I’m developing as well that are exciting," Cameron told Empire last year. "I think eventually over time – I don’t know if that’s after three or after four – I’ll want to pass the baton to a director that I trust to take over, so I can go do some other stuff that I’m also interested in. Or maybe not. I don’t know."
Avatar 3 is scheduled for release on 20 December, 2024.