It will finally be revealed to the main characters that Dodgson hired Dennis.
Jossed, nothing about Nedry is mentioned at all. The prologue is actually an in-universe advertisement. . .
. . . produced by BioSyn to show off the Giganotosaurus.
As has been pointed out before, the prologue doesn't really make sense from a paleontological perspective. Which is weird, because for all its other faults, the greater Jurassic Park franchise (outside the movies, anyway) has normally been pretty good about avoiding anachronism with its dinosaurs. But that's not the only thing that seems odd about it. While the T. rex in the prologue has feathers and overall looks different from the cloned version we know and love, the Giganotosaurus is identical to its cloned counterpart. It's all but confirmed at this point that the cloned Giganotosaurus will be a BioSyn creation rather than an InGen one. And— even within the Jurassic Park universe— which dinosaur is most closely associated with InGen? The T. rex, of course!
So the prologue we see was probably produced by BioSyn marketing executives who weren't very knowledgeable about paleontology, but wanted to send a clear message to their InGen rivals. And that message basically amounts to, "Our dinosaur can beat up your dinosaur." Even the part where the mosquito bites the dead T. rex plays into that— it's making that not-too-subtle statement that BioSyn's latest creation can kill Rexy herself.
Really, pretty much everything about the prologue makes more sense if you look at it from BioSyn advertising perspective. The Giganotosaurus is portrayed as acting like a normal animal, instead of a Super-Persistent Predator, while the T. rex attacks first? All the better to reassure potential investors that BioSyn dinosaurs are docile and easy to control, unlike those violent monsters InGen produces. The feathered dinosaurs? BioSyn promises to give you the real deal, not mutant freaks with frog DNA. Of course, BioSyn's advertising executives aren't paleontologists, so a lot of anachronisms slipped through, but who can blame them?
- Alternatively, the setting of the prologue could be something akin to Mantah Corp's island from season 4 of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, an artificial biome which BioSyn created for their dinosaurs and designed to replicate (with obvious liberties) a generic Cretaceous ecosystem. The mosquito and "65 million years later" time card are both simply part of a clever Bait-and-Switch on the part of the film.
- Never mind, my guess seems to be jossed, though an in-universe advertisement still seems plausible.
The Mosasaurus will be Killed Off for Real
Probably by BioSyn, to demonstrate that they are a genuine threat. Killing of Rexy or Blue would lead to too much fan backlash, but the Mosasaurus is both iconic enough and not an A-list creature the way they are, so I could see this being something the writers might do.- Jossed, the Mosasaurus does not even have any kills or any real importance in the plot whatsoever.
Bumpy, Toro, Limbo and Chaos will be among the dinosaurs seen in the film.
- Possibly partly confirmed; the Carnotaurus in the trailer looks like it's the same one from the ending of Fallen Kingdom, which has been speculated by fans to be Toro.
- Likely jossed for Bumpy, Toro and Limbo as they are all last seen on Mantah Corp Island. a photo of an ankylosaurus that has looks seems to strongly resemble Bumpy appears on the Dino Tracker website, possibly also confirmed for Chaos as a Baryonyx that could be Chaos appears in the film.
Alan Grant and Blue will form an Odd Friendship in the movie.
At first, Alan would believe that Blue is a dangerous and unpredictable animal that should be exterminated for the good of humanity, but after getting to know her a little more, Alan would see that relationships between humans and raptors would be possible and that humans and raptors could live together. Maybe at some point, Blue would save Alan's life from the Giganotosaurus, then Alan and Blue would form an unlikely friendship and Alan and Blue would team up to take down the Giganotosaurus and Lewis Dodgson.- It would be a great way to evolve Alan Grant’s relationships with raptors, in Jurassic Park he started off loving raptors and was fascinated by them before he was attacked and hunted by them, which led to his hating them as theme-park monsters in Jurassic Park III, only to have his love for them restored in Dominion by being saved by and getting to know Blue.
- Jossed, they never share the screen.
Blue will do a Heroic Sacrifice.
- Possibly to save either Beta, Owen, or maybe even Alan.
- Jossed.
Rexy will have a heartwarming tender moment with Grant, Sattler, and Malcolm.
- Only if "saving their lives" counts.
The Atrociraptor Squad will become Blue's new pack, after they do a Heel–Face Turn.
It is very likely that after Blue defeats and kills Ghost (the alpha of her pack), the remaining three members of the Atrociraptor Squad would become Blue's new pack and she would have a new pack. Perhaps Red the member of the Atrociraptor Squad will become Blue's mate, after he and his surviving brothers did a Heel–Face Turn and now the Atrociraptor Squad will be Blue's new pack.- Jossed.
Blue's offspring will be the product of parthenogenetic reproduction rather than having mated with another velociraptor.
Since there do not appear to be any other (male) velociraptors for Blue to have mated with, Blue's child was likely conceived without any fertilization. This hypothesis is reinforced by the fact that one of Blue's genetic templates was a black-throated African monitor lizard
, and monitor lizards are also known to be capable of parthenogenetic reproduction. Note also that the trailer shows Blue only having one baby, and the linked research article's observation that "only one [parthogenetically-conceived] offspring successfully hatched and survived" out of fourteen separate clutches of monitor lizard eggs (though it is also possible other viable offspring of Blue may have been killed or disappeared through separate circumstances, e.g., predation by other species). This would also echo the first film, where "life found a way" for an all-female group of dinosaurs to reproduce regardless (due to the inclusion of West African frog DNA, in that case).- Confirmed. The video game, Jurassic World: Aftermath confirms that Blue can reproduce on her own.
Maisie will have less focus in this movie and her story will not be brought up within the movie.
Given that the second trailer is more or less focused on the team-up of the original gang with Owen and the gang, Maisie will most likely be less focused.- Jossed. In fact, her origins have quite the plot importance.
Both Rexy and the Mosasaurus will reproduce asexually like Blue.
Much like Blue, both Rexy and the Mosasaurus were both the last of their kinds in the previous film and so they will have Babies Ever After.- Jossed. Rexy ends up forming a family unit with the Buck and the Doe T. rexes while the Mosasaurus is accepted by a pod of humpback whales.
The two MantahCorp raptors from Camp Cretaceous will show up, get nicknamed by Owen and become Blue and Beta’s new pack mates, forming a new raptor squad.
- Jossed.
Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler will be Advertised Extras and the final movie will focus on Claire and Owen.
Lex, Tim, Billy, the Kirby’s, Sarah, Nick Van Owen, the family from Battle at Big Rock and the campers from Camp Cretaceous will be mentioned or have cameos.
- Jossed.
Claire and Owen will clash with Ian Malcolm over their opposing views on the dinosaurs and Owen and Alan Grant will discuss their experiences with raptors.
- First part is Jossed, second one happens.
The film’s Big Bad Lewis Dodgson will get his Just Desserts like the previous villains Vic Hoskins and Eli Mills.
- Confirmed!
Dr. Wu will either get his long-awaited Just Desserts or he actually has a Heel Realization and becomes The Atoner.
Perhaps even quoting Brooklyn as a Shout-Out to Camp Cretaceous. “True visionaries make the world better, not worse.”
- While it appears out of context in the "Legacy" featurette, Dr. Wu's line about a "need to fix a terrible mistake" combined with what may be an Expository Hairstyle Change does seem to lean toward The Atoner possibility.
- Second part is right, he's The Atoner.
It will be mentioned that BioSyn used DNA from modern birds to create feathered dinosaurs and in the case of Pyroraptor DNA from Scarlet macaw was used.
It is likely that at some point it will be mentioned that BioSyn unlike InGen and Masrani Global Corporation, who used DNA from different animals to create dinosaurs, BioSyn in their case used DNA from modern birds to create feathered dinosaurs such as Therizinosaurus and Pyroraptor and in the case of the latter. It will be mentioned that Scarlet macaw DNA was used to create the Pyroraptor (the most scientifically correct). Dr. Henry Wu will die.
Dr. Henry Wu is likely to die as in the original novel. Maybe he will be killed by some raptor:- Blue
- Beta
- Ghost
- Red
- Tiger
- Panthera
- Pyroraptor
Possible non-Raptors:
- Rexy
- Dilophosaurus
- Giganotosaurus
- Jossed, he survives.
Wu will mention the Scorpios rex.
- Jossed.
Kayla is actually Ian Malcolm's daughter Kelly.
She changed her name as a means to protect herself and her father.- Kelly was 12-13 years old during the events of The Lost World which presumably takes place in the same year the film was released. DeWanda Wise who plays Kayla was the same age in 1997, supporting this theory.
- Jossed.
Blue either dies or is seriously injured trying to protect her daughter.
Beta is then stolen by poachers hired by Mantacorp and Owen and Claire make it their mission to rescue her.- Probably jossed. The second trailer shows Blue still alive and well after Beta got captured.
- Really jossed. Paraphrasing the movie, "You promised a raptor you'd bring back her daughter?"
Maisie will have a Guilt Complex over her well-intentioned decision to release the dinosaurs from Lockwood’s manor.
- Jossed. Albeit Clone Angst happened.
The cloned Giganotosaurus was mistreated by BioSyn.
Thus providing a potential Freudian Excuse for why, as Word of God puts it, it "wants to watch the world burn".- Jossed.
Owen will die.
Several shots in the trailer feature him getting a little too close to danger. With the Giganotosaurus even rising behind him at one point ala MechaGodzilla. Even Blue takes a swipe at him at one point after Beta is captured in the new trailer. Things don't like good for Owen.- Jossed.
Spinosaurus will make an unexpected return.
It will be revealed that the Spinosaurus has been secretly relocated into the BioSyn facility after the events of Camp Cretaceous, and by the climax of the film, it will square off with Rexy before they decide to team up against the Giganotosaurus.- Jossed.
Rexy will be Killed Off for Real while performing a Last Stand, emerging victorious against a rival dinosaur, but too old and too injured to keep going.
- Jossed.
The reason Owen and Maisie are living out in the middle of the woods...
...is because Maisie is a fugitive for one of two reasons, if not both:- Word got out that she's the first viable human clone, meaning that there are a bunch of corporations like Biosyn who would love to get their hands on her genome.
- Word got out how she was the one partially responsible for reintroducing dinosaurs to the world, and, regardless if she was a child at the time, people are gonna want to hold her accountable for the chaos this has caused.
- First one is right!
Maisie actually is a part-dinosaur hybrid
It will be revealed that she was not just a clone, but a genetic experiment by Ingen and a prototype for the Indoraptor, with Masiakasaurus being one of her genetic components hence her code-name, Maisie.- Jossed.
Blue will eventually meet the Sorna raptors after the film ended
- The Dino Tracker site shows they made it to the mainland. It’s not clear if there are just the two or if there are more. They were quite far from where Blue was, but if there are others, they could run into Blue. Whether she would accept them as company or view them as strange/a threat to her baby/a threat to the humans and drive them off is another story…
Dinosaurs are going to be prime targets for big game hunters
- It just stands to reason. Owen might still have to be vigilant to keep Blue and Beta safe over the years. And hopefully the rexes stay safe as well.
- Confirmed. Dino poaching is mentioned as being a thing now, and Owen and Claire's side of the plot kicks-off when Beta and Maisie are kidnapped by said poachers.
The reason the Mosasaurus was accepted by the pod of whales is because she saved one of them from a shark attack.
- It's definitely rather odd to see the Mosasaurus swimming with a group of whales, any one of which could clearly be a decent meal for her. And whales, being as intelligent as they are, would probably at least recognize her as a predator even if they don't know what she is. So there's got to be a reason they're tolerating her. Maybe one of their young was attacked by a shark, and the Mosasaurus— who, after all, was fed sharks in captivity and recognizes them as food— ate the shark but left the young whale alone.
Lewis Dodgson has early onset dementia
- Although he's supposed to be the CEO of a gigantic Google-like tech corporation, Dodgson acted always a little off during most of the movie, acting confused in most situations, and at least once going of an unrelated tangent during the conversation, like asking Ramsay for snacks. This, coupled to his desire to "cure diseases" and wanting the genome of Maisie (who had a hereditary illness that her mother was able to cure with genetic manipulation) points to Dodgson having an secret motive for all of his actions: saving himself.
In an alternative to the above Mosasaurus theory, she instead was accepted because she saved the pod from a whaling ship
- Perhaps by chance she found herself at the site of a whaling vessel trying to harpoon some whales and seeing it as a threat she sunk it, inadvertedly saving the whales' lives and subsequently being accepted after the whales began to see her as a protector and preferred companion.
The heroes of the franchise become key members in the U.N. Dinosaur/Extranatural Species Department
No reason this needs to happen, but it'd be cool if, after the events of this film, the heroes of the franchise got to work together and go forward making the world better for people and dinosaurs. Ideal positions would be:- Director: Claire Dearing
- Survelliance and IT: Lex Murphy
- Dinosaur Biology: Dr. Henry Wu (as part of his work-release program, of course) and Dr. Mae Turner.
- Lead Paleontologist: Dr. Alan Grant
- Assistant Paleontologists: Tim Murphy and Darius Bowman
- Mathematics: Ian Malcolm (he's more than proved the need for such a division)
- Public Relations: Brooklyn Kon
- Game Reserve Overseer: Kenji Kon
- Game Warden: Ben Pincus
- Primary Food Suppliers: Yasmina Fadoula and Sammy Gutierrez
- Search and Rescue Team Leader: Owen Grady
The entire prologue sequence is Rexy's imperfect Genetic Memory of the Cretaceous
It's already been proposed that Rexy has a Genetic Memory of her ancestor's life in the Cretaceous, based on a peculiar moment in the extended cut of the film (what appears to be a flashback sequence to the prehistoric Rex's death in the prologue, just before Rexy gets her Heroic Second Wind in the climax). While it's an odd and admittedly somewhat Narm-y notion to entertain, it could also explain a lot about the inaccuracies of the prologue (Anachronism Stew aside) if we're assumed to be viewing the whole thing through a "Rexy lens". Like most distant memories, it's been clouded and distorted by her more recent experiences, which is why some of the animals in the prologue (namely the Ankylosaurus, Giganotosaurus, and Pteranodon) look identical to their present-day clones despite not exactly being accurate to the real thing. Biosyn isn't the company that tried to steal from InGen in the first movie
That was still the same Dodgson meeting with Nedry, but at the time he was working for some other unscrupulous genetics company and lower on the corporate ladder at the time, hence why he was there instead of some crony like he sent to the Mantah Corp island in Camp Cretaceous. This older company folded up sometime after the events of the first film and Dodgson eventually went on to form Biosyn after that, probably after Jurassic World was opened to the public.