8 Burning Questions We Have After Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
7. Who Was The Russian Bidder And Why Does He Want The Indoraptor?
For better or worse, the underworld dinosaur auction takes up a lot of the movie’s run-time before the Indoraptor thankfully cuts it short. Plenty of the captured dinosaurs get bought and shipped to various anonymous bidders courtesy of Evil Businessman (Rafe Spall’s Eli Mills) and Grumpy Auctioneer (Toby Jones’ Gunnar Eversol), and the movie doesn’t really linger on any of them.
That is, except one: the tough-looking Russian bidder played by Neil Bishop. The camera spends a little too much time lingering on him, almost as if he was very important indeed. He’s the one who persuades Mills to allow the Indoraptor “prototype” to be part of the auction, much to the anger of Dr Wu (B.D. Wong). He’s also the bidder who wins the Indoraptor, and he leaves before it escapes so could have a part to play in Jurassic World 3.
Just who is this guy? Why does he want the Indoraptor so bad? With all the other villain characters dead, it’s entirely possibly that this guy is being set up for an antagonistic role in the next film. He could even be working for Lewis Dodgson’s company BioSyn, the rival of InGen, that bribed Dennis Nedry to steal the dino DNA in Jurassic Park. As for InGen...