Jurassic World Dominion had the perfect opportunity to hide an Easter egg with the security gate and the code, so what do the numbers mean? Jurassic World Dominion is the sixth installment in the larger Jurassic Park franchise and supposedly the end of the Jurassic World trilogy. Previous films have featured Easter eggs hidden by the directors to pay homage to previous works and the earlier films.
In Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, director J.A. Bayona repeatedly had a security code used for the elevators and secure areas, 7337, which was a reference to Sergio G. Sánchez's short film of the same name. Sánchez was the person who gave Bayona the script that would become his breakout horror film, The Orphanage. With the # symbol at the end, it's also been pointed out that the number looks like TEETH. Jurassic World Dominion is not shy about having callbacks and capitalizing on the actors from the original trilogy, so, theoretically, one would think it would use any opportunity to include Easter eggs as well.
Near the end of Jurassic World Dominion, Maisie (Isabella Sermon), Ellie (Laura Dern), and Alan (Sam Neill) are fleeing from a dino, while Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) attempts to guess the code for the gate to help them escape. Malcolm spends time talking through his guesses and inputting them on the keypad before he eventually types in 969 (the last digit is either input before or after the camera cuts to or from the keypad), and simultaneously, Ramsay (Mamoudou Athie) inputs the correct code remotely, 9517. Like the code in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, is this a reference to something else, or did director Colin Trevorrow just use a series of inconsequential numbers?
What The Gate Code Used In Jurassic World Dominion Is (Does It Mean Anything?)
As for the code that Malcolm typed in, there are several theories. The two most plausible are also worlds apart. Goldblum could have taken the opportunity to simply have some fun and input 6969 as the code, or, it is possible the code could have been 1969. That year featured significant advances in human technology and entertainment as it's when the moon landing occurred and Woodstock took place, among other big events.
9517 is more difficult to attach a specific meaning to, but one possible theory is that it is a jumbled version of 1975, the year that Jaws was released. This theory is a possibility considering Trevorrow also included a Jaws reference in Jurassic World. And, when inserted into a standard three-by-three grid keypad, 9517 forms the shape of a fin. However, it is more likely that neither of these numbers holds any significance, or that any reference was made coincidentally, which is somewhat surprising considering Jurassic World Dominion took advantage of other opportunities for Easter eggs.