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. 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. Might he turn up in the shower one day, looking as buff and evil as ever?
