Dodgson is returning in Jurassic World: Dominion, which means the film can borrow elements from The Lost World: Jurassic Park's original book plot. Whereas the first Jurassic Park movie was relatively faithful to its source material, director Steven Spielberg and writer David Koepp took a far more fast-and-loose approach to adapting Michael Crichton's sequel novel, The Lost World. In addition to adding a third act in which a Tyrannosaurus Rex goes on a rampage in San Diego, The Lost World film features a completely different human villain from the one in Crichton's book.
Wheres Spielberg's The Lost World pits Ian Malcolm and his allies against Peter Ludlow, the new CEO of InGen (and John Hammond's nephew), Crichton's original novel brings back Lewis Dodgson, the head of research at BioSyn Genetics and the man whose scheme to steal dinosaur embryos from InGen led to Jurassic Park's downfall in the first movie and book. Both men end up meeting the same gruesome fate (being eaten alive by a baby T-Rex), but their actual plans are a far cry from the other's.
In The Lost World book, Dodgson travels to Isla Sorna with a small group to steal dinosaur eggs for BioSyn, as opposed to Ludlow's attempt to capture dinosaurs from the island and bring them to a new Jurassic Park attraction based in San Diego in the movie. With Dodgson returning in the upcoming third and final installment in the Jurassic World sequel trilogy, Dominion, the film has the potential to adapt aspects of the character's storyline in The Lost World novel that didn't make it into Spielberg's adaptation.
Obviously, Dominion can't (and shouldn't) completely recreate Dodgson's plot thread from The Lost World book. For starters, the events of The Lost World movie are canon and Isla Sorna has become a dead zone for dinosaur life by the time the Jurassic World trilogy begins. It's also reported that Dodgson (who will now be played by Campbell Scott since his original actor, Cameron Thor, is currently in prison for sexually assaulting a teenaged girl) has been promoted to CEO of BioSyn sometime prior to the events of Dominion, so presumably he'll want to avoid putting himself in harm's way, unlike Ludlow and Dodgson in The Lost World book. Still, with the dinosaurs that survived Isla Nublar's volcanic eruption in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom freely wreaking havoc in the world, it's plausible Dominion's Dodgson will decide capturing dinosaur eggs in the wild is the best way to go about exploiting the creatures for his company's benefit.
At the very least, it's encouraging to hear Dominion will finally tie-off Jurassic Park's Dodgson story thread after the last four Jurassic sequels left it dangling. With so many classic Jurassic Park characters coming back for the film (including, Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler, in addition to Malcolm), the hope is the third Jurassic World movie will payoff the plot-lines from the last two films while simultaneously providing a sense of closure for the larger Jurassic franchise. Satisfyingly capping off storylines from multiple trilogies is a tall order for any movie and can get messy very quickly (as audiences saw with last year's The Rise of Skywalker), but hopefully life, er, Dominion will find a way.
