James Cameron has confirmed the main villain of all four Avatar sequels – and it's someone who we assumed was dead.

Talking to Empire, the director revealed that Stephen Lang's Colonel Miles Quaritch will be terrorising the Na'vi again in Avatar 2 and beyond, despite taking a couple of massive arrows to the chest in the first movie.

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"The interesting conceit of the Avatar sequels is it's pretty much the same characters. There are new characters and a lot of new settings and creatures, so I'm taking characters you know and putting them in unfamiliar places and moving them on this greater journey," he explained.

"But it's not a whole bunch of new characters every time. There's not a new villain every time, which is interesting. Same guy. Same motherf**ker through all four movies. He is so good and he just gets better. I know Stephen Lang is gonna knock this out of the park."

We knew Lang would be back, but figured it was more in a flashback cameo role, although Sigourney Weaver's Dr Grace Augustine also died in the first movie and is in the sequels, so perhaps we shouldn't be surprised.

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Way back when the Avatar sequels were due to shoot in 2014, Cameron had compared Lang's character to Star Wars' Darth Vader. "I'm not going to say exactly HOW we're bringing him back, but it's a science fiction story, after all," he said at the time.

We'll have to wait and see just how Lang returns when Avatar 2 hits cinemas on December 18, 2020.

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