- Stephen Lang played Colonel Miles Quaritch, the villain of the first movie.
- The character’s memories have been transplanted into an avatar body.
- Colonel Quaritch has undergone a substantial transformation in The Way of Water.
Stephen Lang, who played Colonel Miles Quaritch, the villain of the first movie, would return for one of the more exciting parts of the creation of James Cameron’s Avatar sequels ‘Avatar: The Way of Water‘ and the remainder of the trilogy.
This was especially noteworthy because Colonel Quaritch appeared to pass away after Neytiri (Zoe Saldaa) wounded him in the chest with an arrow.
Quaritch’s character will develop into some really surprising places over the course of our new three-film narrative, according to Cameron. From dead to life, for example, and so on.
In a recent interview, Perri Nemiroff asked Lang about his role in Avatar and how much of a change we can anticipate for Colonel Quaritch in Cameron’s Avatar follow-up films.
As Quaritch’s memories have been transplanted into an avatar body, his conflict with the Na’vi, particularly Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), has just just begun in Avatar: The Way of Water.
When questioned about whether Lang believed this new Quaritch was salvageable and whether he could improve himself now that he was an avatar, Lang responded:
“I think one should always remain open to the possibilities. Who can say? I mean, this is a mysterious world. AWOW works in strange ways and willy nilly, he is part of that world now. What he has learned is that he cannot shape that world according to his desires, the way he wants to do things. He needs to adapt to it. And so I think under those circumstances, anything is possible. Do I think personally that he’s redeemable? Yeah, sure. Will he be redeemed? Can’t say.”
Colonel Quaritch has already experienced a substantial bodily transformation, but The Way of Water does at least suggest that he could be able to adapt in response to his current situation.
The Quaritch in The Way of Water has a bit more depth because he is now compelled to live like the people he once despised. In contrast to the Quaritch of Avatar, who had a single goal—extracting the Na’vi to obtain Pandora’s unattainable resources.
Given that much of the Avatar sequels has already been filmed and that the scripts for all four sequels have already been written, it is also safe to assume that Lang knows the solution to the question of whether or not Quaritch can be saved.
Lang is not as certain about the original human Quaritch as he is about the new Na’vi Quaritch, who might have been salvageable. Lang responded when asked if the initial Quaritch might have also been redeemable:
“It’s a different situation. It’s a tough question, but I mean, the OG colonel, he had cauterized away so much of his emotion and feeling. He was in a tough spot, just spiritually, it seems to me, at that point.”
We won’t know for a while if Colonel Quaritch is actually redeemable in the Avatar sequels, but it’s obvious that Cameron and his team are attempting to give this character a bit more depth in The Way of Water, and with Lang scheduled to appear in the following three sequels as well, we haven’t seen the last of Quaritch—in whatever form he may appear in.
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