Back in blue: is Avatar: The Way of Water resurrecting Col Quaritch as a Na’vi?

The main baddie – given life in an enjoyably scenery-chewing performance by Stephen Lang – died at the end of the first film.

Not an issue, says space-tech fan James Cameron …I made a joke in a recent column about Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) coming back as a sentient tree in the forthcoming Avatar-The-Way-of-Water-2022-movie-posters/”>Avatar: The Way of Water.

He’s not, he’s coming back as a Na’vi instead.Ever since 2009, when Quaritch succumbed to a brace of arrows through the rib cage while trying to fend off an indigenous rebellion in his high-powered mech suit, Avatar fans have wondered how James Cameron would bring him back to life for part two.

Perhaps the nefarious mercenary had an equally cunning and perfidious twin brother who would turn up on Pandora to take revenge on his behalf.

Or maybe, like Bobby Ewing in Dallas, Quaritch’s demise was just a horrible fever dream.

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