Which unlikely ‘Jurassic Park’ character is returning for ‘Jurassic World’?

Sorry, “Jurassic Park” fans: If you were hoping for the return of franchise characters like Alan Grant (Sam Neill), Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), or Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) in the upcoming “Jurassic World,” then writer/director Colin Trevorrow has some bad news for you.

“I know a lot of fans want to see the original characters back. They’re iconic,” Trevorrow recently said in an interview with IGN. “But I respect those actors too much to shoehorn them into this story for my own sentimental reasons. Jurassic Park isn’t about the bad luck of three people who keep getting thrown into the same situation.”

Though we may not be getting any of the central characters from the previous three “Jurassic Park” movies, there’s one minor character from the first movie who most definitely will appear in Trevorrow’s series reboot: Dr. Henry Wu.

Henry who?

Henry Wu (BD Wong) was the InGen geneticist responsible for the dinosaur cloning science that lead to the creation of John Hammond’s ill-fated dino theme park. Wu is the one who introduced fellow scientists Grant, Malcolm, and Sattler to the hatching baby dinosaurs at the beginning of Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film.

“BD Wong will be returning as Dr. Henry Wu,” Trevorrow said. “He had a much larger role in the original novel, he was the engineer of this breakthrough in de-extinction. He spent two decades living in Hammond’s shadow, underappreciated. We think there’s more to his story.”

Watch a clip of BD Wong in "Jurassic Park":

Wong, who is probably best known for his work on the TV series “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” joins Chris Pratt (“Parks and Recreation,” “Guardians of the Galaxy”), Idris Elba (“Thor: The Dark World”), Bryce Dallas Howard (“Spider-Man 3”), Jake Johnson (“New Girl”), and Ty Simpkins (“Iron Man 3”) in the film that will continue the story of “Jurassic Park.” Though Trevorrow claims that Neill, Goldblum, and Dern won't be appearing in the film, it's almost a guarantee that their characters will at least be mentioned in "Jurassic World."

Might we see other minor characters from the previous films show up? Not likely. While Wu's appearance in the film does serve as a nice through-line between the new movie and the original, his presence is also likely due to the fact that he's one of the only "Jurassic Park" bit players to actually survive. Almost every other "Jurassic Park" actor with a speaking part was killed and/or eaten by cloned dinosaurs. We're guessing that rules out a cameo by the severed arm of Ray Arnold (Samuel L. Jackson) or the half-eaten corpse of Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight) is likely not in the cards.

"Jurassic World" stomps into theatres on June 12, 2015.