{"id":16753,"date":"2022-06-10T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1659913"},"modified":"2022-06-10T12:24:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T10:24:09","slug":"why-jurassic-world-3-brought-back-a-crucial-villain-from-jurassic-park","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/why-jurassic-world-3-brought-back-a-crucial-villain-from-jurassic-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Jurassic World 3 brought back a crucial villain from Jurassic Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Huw Fullerton\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 10 June 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>It\u2019s fair to say that <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/movies\/jurassic-world-dominion-release-date-cast\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Jurassic World Dominion<\/a> is full of throwbacks to the original Jurassic Park movies, with stars Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum all returning and plenty of Easter eggs scattered around the film to tie the whole story together.<\/p>\n<p>But in one crucial way, the film ties even closer to the original 1993 Jurassic Park than fans might initially realise. You see, the main villain of this film comes straight from the earlier movie \u2013 and arguably, it\u2019s down to him that any of the deadly events of the franchise happened in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Warning \u2013 minor spoilers from Jurassic World Dominion follow after this point.<\/p> <p>We are of course talking about Lewis Dodgson, the CEO of genetics company BioSyn who is played by Campbell Scott in the Jurassic World threequel. In the new movie, he\u2019s a vaguely Steve Jobs-esque figure who turns out to have his fingers in very menacing pies, and you\u2019d be forgiven for thinking he\u2019s a new character entirely.<\/p>\n<p>However, he\u2019s not \u2013 Dodgson actually first appeared in the original Jurassic Park, hiring Wayne Knight\u2019s Nedry to steal genetic material from Jurassic Park. This leads Nedry to shut down security and electric fences, releasing various dinosaurs and causing the bloody prehistoric chaos we all know and love. He also plays a part in the original Michael Crichton book the film is based on, with more detail given about his company BioSyn.<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"&quot;Jurassic\" park=\"\" we=\"\" got=\"\" dodgson=\"\" here=\"\" scene=\"\" hd=\"\" width=\"&quot;200&quot;\" height=\"&quot;113&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e6FXdloCUOM?feature=oembed&quot;\" frameborder=\"&quot;0&quot;\" allow=\"&quot;accelerometer;\" autoplay=\"\" clipboard-write=\"\" encrypted-media=\"\" gyroscope=\"\" picture-in-picture=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/>\n<p>Onscreen he was played by Cameron Thor in 1993, but he\u2019s been recast for this new film which makes it a bit more of a subtle connection \u2013 but the character\u2019s significance is underlined by the presence of a modified shaving cream can in his office, the very same he gave Nedry to store the stolen DNA inside. Why he would keep that beyond \u2018showing it to audiences watching a film that he\u2019s a character in\u2019 is a mystery, but it\u2019s there if you didn\u2019t pick up on who he was originally.<\/p>\n<p>And when we caught up with director Colin Trevorrow, he says that bringing Dodgson back was a key part of his story plan for the new film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always felt like Dodgson and BioSyn\u2026 which isn\u2019t mentioned in the first movie, it\u2019s only people who\u2019ve read the book who even know that BioSyn exists. But, you know, for fans of Crichton, BioSyn as an entity felt like an important thing to define,\u201d Trevorrow told <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/RadioTimes.com&quot;\">RadioTimes.com<\/a><strong>.<\/strong> \u201cAnd this movie gave us that opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we also didn\u2019t want to make [BioSyn] an evil corporation. Because I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a real thing. I think corporations are made up of people who work for somebody who is making decisions very high up.<\/p> <div class=\"&quot;brightcove\" embed=\"\"> <div class=\"&quot;embed__intrinsic&quot;\"> <div class=\"&quot;brightcove__player\" vjs-playlist-player-container=\"\"> <video data-video-id=\"6307362608112\" data-account=\"69912529001\" data-player=\"ByeOf0VZEl\" data-embed=\"&quot;default&quot;\" data-application-id=\"\" controls=\"\" class=\"&quot;video-js&quot;\"\/><\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script src=\"&quot;\/\/players.brightcove.net\/69912529001\/ByeOf0VZEl_default\/index.min.js&quot;\"\/><p>\u201cAnd so to make that guy, someone who feels like a betrayal to the values of all the young people working in the company, felt like something a lot of us are feeling now and we could connect to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a big thread. I mean, Mamoudou Athie\u2019s character is a young man who feels betrayed by this, this icon that everybody looks up to who turns out to be a pretty shady guy. And I think that\u2019s it\u2019s a very current idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, it was a way to connect a bit of fun nostalgia with a theme that Trevorrow was interested in \u2013 and a way to see what would have happened if BioSyn actually got its hands on the dinosaur juice way back in the 1990s (spoiler alert: it would have been bad anyway).<\/p>\n<p>What (Jurassic) larks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jurassic World Dominion is in UK cinemas now. For more, check out our dedicated <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/movies\/&quot;\">Movies<\/a> page or our full <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/tv-listings\/&quot;\">TV Guide<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>The latest issue of Radio Times magazine is on sale now \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/radiotimes.com\/magazine-subscription?utm_term=evergreen-article&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener noopener noreferrer\" noreferrer=\"\" data-auth=\"&quot;NotApplicable&quot;\" data-linkindex=\"&quot;0&quot;\">subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0and get the next 12 issues for only \u00a31. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/podcasts\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener noopener noreferrer\" noreferrer=\"\" data-auth=\"&quot;NotApplicable&quot;\" data-linkindex=\"&quot;1&quot;\">Radio Times podcast<\/a>\u00a0with Jane Garvey.<\/b><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huw Fullerton Published: Friday, 10 June 2022 at 12:00 am It\u2019s fair to say that Jurassic World Dominion is full of throwbacks to the original Jurassic Park movies, with stars Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum all returning and plenty of Easter eggs scattered around the film to tie the whole story together. 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