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"    Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana have agreed to return to the Avatar movies. The duo will appear in the next three films of the James Cameron-directed franchise. Stephen Lang has also confirmed his return as the villainous Colonel Miles Quaritch. Fox recently announced that there will be three - not two - more sequels and that Cameron had hired screenwriters Josh Friedman (War of the Worlds), Rick Jaffa &amp;amp;amp; Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planets of the Apes), and Shane Salerno (Savages, Salinger) to collaborate with on the screenplays for the second, third and fourth movies. Cameron has also said that Avatar sequels will be shot in New Zealand. He projected that the first 3D Avatar sequel will be in cinemas by Christmas 2016, with the ensuing movies to be released in 2017 and late 2018 respectively. The director added that all three films will be shot concurrently beginning in 2015. Photo Credit: 20th Century Fox "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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