James Cameron is planning for life after Avatar. The filmmaker has purchased the rights to the forthcoming book Ghosts Of Hiroshima, and intends to direct a feature adaptation of the atomic bomb story.

Cameron is the biggest director in the world, known for the Terminator franchise and Aliens, and for directing three of the top four biggest movies of all time: Avatar, Avatar: the Way of Water and Titanic. The feature would mark his first non-Avatar film since 1997’s Titanic.

He is deep into Avatar: Fire & Ash, which arrives in December 2025. It’s certainly nice to imagine a world where Cameron makes movies that don’t have 13′ tall cat people that talk to space whales—though we’re more than happy to enjoy Cameron’s flights of fancy if they’re going to be as good as Way of Water. James Cameron Gives Hiroshima Movie Update, Buys Rights to Second Book (yahoo.com)