The 1993 classic Jurassic Park featured white-collar villain Lewis Dodgson and his company, BioSyn — what has he been up to since the original 1993 film? Portrayed by Cameron Thor, Dodgson was introduced early in Steven Spielberg's blockbuster, but after his lone scene, Dodgson hasn't been seen in any of the Jurassic films since. However, Dodgson will return in Colin Trevorrow's Jurassic World: Dominion, but this time, he will be played by Campbell Scott.
In Jurassic Park, Dodgson represented a rival biotech film when he met with Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight) at a Costa Rican restaurant. Dodgson bribed Nedry, paying him $750,000 up front to steal InGen's dinosaur embryos, with a second $750,000 upon delivery. To facilitate Nedry's larceny, Dodgson gave Jurassic Park's systems programmer a fake Barbasol shaving cream can which could temporarily store the dinosaur's embryos. However, Nedry mocked Dodgson's attempts to behave like a secret agent and he infamously made a scene, pointing at his contact and declaring, "Dodgson! We've got Dodgson here! See? Nobody cares." Dodgson wasn't seen again after he parted ways with Nedry, who was later killed by dinosaurs during the tropical storm that caused the dino outbreak in Jurassic Park. Since Nedry never delivered the shaving cream can full of stolen embryos, Dodgson's company consequently never got the illicit biotech that would let them catch up to John Hammond's (Richard Attenborough) InGen.
In Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park novel, Dodgson was a department head of BioSyn, InGen's chief competitor. However, the name "BioSyn" was never uttered in Spielberg's film. Like in the movie, Dodgson bribed Nedry, who died before he could get the stolen embryos to BioSyn. Dodgson then returned in Crichton's sequel, The Lost World, in which he was the main villain who led BioSyn's expedition to Isla Sorna. Dodgson was replaced by a new character, Peter Ludlow (Arliss Howard), in Spielberg's 1997 sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Since The Lost World novel bears little resemblance to the film adaptation, fans don't know what Dodgson and his company, which is presumably still BioSyn, have been up to in the movies' continuity — but that should change when Dodgson returns in Jurassic World: Dominion.
Of course, in Colin Trevorrow's soft-rebooted Jurassic World continuity, things are now very different since Dodgson was last seen almost 30 years ago. John Hammond has been dead for years, and his company, InGen, was bought by Masrani Global Corporation, which opened Jurassic World and successfully ran Hammond's dream of a dinosaur theme park for a decade before the 2015 outbreak caused by Indominus Rex destroyed the new park. In Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Isla Nublar's active volcano, Mount Sibo, erupted and destroyed the island, killing many of the dinosaurs. However, dozens of the cloned prehistoric beasts were rescued and brought to Lockwood Manor in California to be sold at an illegal auction. The dinosaurs were then freed and let loose upon the world.
It's not clear if Dodgson or BioSyn sent a representative the Lockwood dinosaur auction, but even if they didn't, the spread of dinosaurs across the planet changes everything. Dodgson's company now doesn't need InGen's embryos since they could capture the loose dinosaurs instead and reverse engineer them. Jurassic World also introduced the concept of hybrid dinosaurs like Indominus Rex and the Indoraptor into canon, while Fallen Kingdom dropped the bombshell that perfect human clones like Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon) also exist in the Jurassic universe. Dr. Henry Wu (B.D. Wong) is also open to working with anyone who wants to meet his price in order to access his dinosaur cloning and hybrid tech.
Trevorrow clearly intends to bring the entire Jurassic franchise full-circle since the original film's heroes Alan Grant (Sam Neill), Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), and Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) will be in Jurassic World 3 along with Dodgson (whom none of them have ever met). But the proliferation of dinosaurs across the planet, and the advent of human clones, leaves the potential for Dodgson's villainy wide open when he and BioSyn make their long-awaited comeback in Jurassic World: Dominion.
