10 Ways Jurassic World Sets Up A Sequel

5. The Embryos Are Still At Large

No, this isn't about the still-missing embryos that Dennis Nedry attempted to smuggle out of Jurassic Park in the original movie because, remember, they could only survive in the Barbasol can for 46 hours, and it's extremely unlikely that they were discovered in time. But in terms of the latest film, Dr. Wu didn't just escape from Jurassic World with himself in tact: he also took off with a bunch of research and dinosaur embryos, ensuring that regardless of whether the dinosaurs wreck the island's lab area or the site gets nuked into a crater, it's still possible to recreate the dinosaurs at another location. There's no bigger sequel hook in the movie and it's smartly thrown out a little while before the end of the film so as not to create a lamely predictable cliffhanger finale. Though it was inevitable that another movie was always going to happen, at least the explanation is organically there rather than the script needing to backpedal and say, "But oh wait, Dr. Wu took the embryos with him, didn't you know?" It's clean, tidy and makes 100% narrative sense. Whether anyone would be dumb enough to keep creating these beasts after they caused so much damage, death and bad PR, though, is another point altogether. However, money does have a funny way of making people do reprehensible things, so perhaps it's not that implausible.