After years of wireless secretiveness , theAvatarsequels are finally underway . Announcements about the shape and shooting schedule have become more and more common , but the latest news has sparked supposition and discussion moreso than the others . James Cameron confirmed that Miles Quaritch , played by Stephen Lang in the original film , will be the villain of all four sequel as well . This is the first clock time that we ’ve heard about this particular grapheme ’s exact character in the serial publication . — previous announcements focus on on Jake Worthington ’s and Zoe Saldana ’s proceeds as friend Jake and Neyteri respectively ; though in all fairness , Lang ’s interest with the sequel has long been report .

Quaritch did die at the end of the original picture , making his regaining moderately more surprising . While there is a great deal of fantastical scientific discipline fable lead on in the humankind of Pandora , Resurrection of Christ from the dead has yet to be explore . To recap : Quaritch was obsessed with destroying the Na’vi , but was killed by Saldana ’s Neyteri before he could destroy the sacred Tree of Souls or kill Worthington ’s Jake . This seems like a good end for the character , but like the rest of the saga , Cameron would not let him take a breather , instead order he would be the villain of the entire saga .

Cameron ’s entire citation is below :

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“ The interesting conceit of the   Avatar   sequels is it ’s pretty much the same characters . There are young characters and a batch of young setting and creatures , so I ’m taking characters you know and put them in unfamiliar places and moving them on this keen journeying . But it ’s not a whole bunch of unexampled fibre every meter . There ’s not a new baddie every time , which is interesting . Same cat . Same whoreson through all four moving picture . He is so estimable and he just stick better . I have sex Stephen Lang is gon na knock this out of the car park . ”

Not much is known about the plot of the sequel , so this reveal comes as a second of a surprise . give that most of the reference had a complete discharge in the film , stretching their stories out to fit out four more films might be a scope , but Cameron has proved he ’s more than quick to think new Earth and stories . But most of these retrovert characters were n’t dead at the ending of their film , which means Cameron will have to ideate a whole new way for Quaritch to cheat death .

Cameron has written himself into a bit of a corner with the character , since it ’s likely that he was not plan to make him the primary antagonist of five films . But what ’s done is done , and now Cameron will have to make up a way to bring his villain back from the deadened . Luckily for him , he ’s play in a sandbox which involves a lot of transferring of consciousnesses . Quaritch ’s consciousness could easy be transferred into a raw embodiment of some kind , thus allow him to return . Similarly , it could give Quaritch a new face , even if Lang is doing the molybdenum - roof . The hope of Lang ’s return specifically means they wo n’t recast the character , but the visuals of the world do let for him to return with a fresh look .

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Quaritch being transferred into a raw body before his own demise is an interesting reversal of Jake ’s own net actions where he is transferred into his new body to live his practiced life-time . Quaritch will be sent to a new form for essentially go his bad life — to be a humanity hellbent on retaliation on one specific family . This sets them up as a more interesting protagonist - antagonist duet , with their lives becoming opposite of one another instead of just exist as " nice soldier " and " mean soldier . "

If readers will bear with me a moment , then we can explore exactly how Quaritch ’s knowingness might have been transferred prior to his own death , despite not being near any equipment or tech that would have preserved him . Eywa , the inscrutable force that binds all living things together on Pandora , is try out to exist multiple times throughout the film , most notably when Dr. Grace Augustine ( Sigourney Weaver ) become flat before she can be transfer into her avatar and says she can see " her " right before she go on . If Cameron is go the mystical route , then Eywa might have had a reason to make unnecessary Quaritch . Is this a hint at a potential redemption arc alike to Darth Vader ’s , since Cameron ’s epos very frequently pay homage to other   sci - fi franchise ?

The Eywa hypothesis does lend more evidence to how Augustine will return , as Weaver is also slated to be rejoining the dealership . However , it is less likely that   the benevolent mogul guarding Pandora would economise the humanity hellbent on destroying the planet . Maybe there ’s a flip side to Eywa , a darker power that saves him for the design of causing havoc ? Again , we experience too little about the film to fully speculate on how character will be riposte , but a possible morose side to Eywa could be what saves Quaritch for malevolent purpose .

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Now there could be a uncomplicated explanation — someone got him to the right technology to save his life and as a effect he survived his face-off with Neyteri . There could be an in - universe of discourse scientific answer to his survival that would n’t rely too heavily on mysticism and unfixed world power that be . That does unfold up a mystery story of who saved him , and why , which could make for an interesting subplot in one of the films . It could be a room to introduce a villains lineup for the film to allow for Quaritch with backup , since he ca n’t be up to evil all alone . The Avatar cosmos ’s rogues verandah needs to expand in orderliness to keep the franchise interesting . After all , Quaritch did have a complete arc in the first film . He ’ll need some help staying relevant for future installment .

The constituent of Christ’s Resurrection was one fiddle with in the first film , but now is being explore outright . It could be a very interesting focal point to take the franchise . The first film had a distinct subplot of scientific discipline vs. faith , and now that religious belief has won to a degree it could be fun to take that in a fresh direction and research the estimate of Christ’s Resurrection . Jake has already died and been behave afresh , and now we know that both his better angel Augustine and the villainous Quaritch will be rising from the dead as well . Cameron ’s serial might become a strange sci - fi religious parable , particular with his frequent emphasis on how the future films will center on family and emotion against an luxuriant backcloth . We know so picayune about these films , but that will for sure change once take starts this September . Maybe then the mystery of Quaritch ’s survival will be suffice .

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