Avatar Sequels: James Cameron Confirms Quaritch as Villain

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This seems to be the firsthand source: Link

I have been slightly concerned since hearing all the Stephen Lang/Quaritch related news.

talking to Empire in our September issue, Cameron reveals that Quaritch won't be relegated to a supporting role or appear solely in flashbacks. Rather, he will continue to menace Jake, Neytiri and the other Na'vi throughout all five movies as the saga's main antagonist.

And now I'm more concerned.

At least I am fairly confident there won't be any logical breach or contrived twist. There are logical explanations for how these two would be alive that do not involve past events being dreams, or anything of the sort. See the old theory that Quaritch (and perhaps now wainfleet) has been covertly driving an avatar during the war of '54. That is a program that could reasonably exist as a branch of the Avatar Program technology into tactical risk management. It would reasonably only involve a few strategically important or higher-up personnel (inasmuch avatars are said to cost several billion and for every random grunt are not economically feasible versus hiring and shipping more employees to replace casualties). The existence of these avatars would also reasonably be kept under wraps from other base personnel, since most troopers are getting shot at and mauled by wildlife for real and knowledge of this program among them could lead to total catastrophic breakdown of the entire SecOps workforce. Thus, it isn't too far fetched that the real Quaritch, and now Wainfleet, are alive.

Now they just have to escape the arrest and evacuation of Hell's Gate personnel and remain on-world. That isn't too difficult if they are, say, driving from a transportable module far away from Hell's Gate that no survivor of the war knows exists.

Setup for this could exist in A1, retrospectively. Quaritch's dying laugh was something oft noticed.

My concern is still that regardless of the integrity of such a twist, any way Quaritch manages to be not (at least corporally) dead after the events of A1 will feel too much like a retcon. Especially due to the incredibly sacred ground status A1 has among fans including myself; I don't imagine retroactive tamperings with the very gravity of events within it will be received well no matter how good a job A2 and onward do with it.

I trust JC nevertheless. I don't entirely trust these guestwriters that have been brought in and I am not hot on the idea of anything Avatar not written solely by Cameron, though I figure that he will keep them chained down pretty good.