One of the many memorable moments in JURASSIC PARK came when the title location's computer programmer Dennis Nedry had a meeting at a beach restaurant with a man named Lewis Dodgson, who wanted him to smuggle dinosaur embryos out of the park. Dodgson came to the meeting with an incognito secret agent vibe, so Nedry mocked him by shouting to everyone around "We've got Dodgson here," then assured Dodgson that nobody cared who he was.
Director Colin Trevorrow is gearing up to get back to work on the latest JURASSIC movie, JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION, and he's guessing that fans of the franchise will care that Dodgson is coming back nearly thirty years later.
According to Collider, Campbell Scott has signed on to play Dodgson in DOMINION. In the new film we'll find that the character is now the CEO of Biosyn Genetics.
Dodgson was played by Cameron Thor in JURASSIC PARK, but the role has been recast because Thor is currently serving a prison sentence for sexual assault. The Dodgson character was in Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park novel and returned in the sequel The Lost World, but was left out of the film adaptation of the sequel. So it seems fitting that he's finally being brought back for another movie.
Directed by Colin Trevorrow from a screenplay he wrote with Emily Carmichael (based on an idea Trevorrow crafted with his JURASSIC WORLD and JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM co-writer Derek Connolly), JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION also stars Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Daniella Pineda, Justice Smith, Jake Johnson, Omar Sy, Mamoudou Athie, DeWanda Wise, and Dichen Lachman.
Shut down by the pandemic when the production was four weeks into a twenty week shooting schedule, DOMINION is set to resume filming on July 6th. A June 11, 2021 release date had been announced, but it's not clear if the film will be able to make that date now.
A collaboration between Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, DOMINION is being executive produced by Trevorrow and Steven Spielberg, with Frank Marshall producing alongside Pat Crowley. Sara Scott, senior vice president of production at Universal, is overseeing the project for the studio.