Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-27060727-20160808004056/@comment-4453062-20160810175151

Adam has already confirmed several times on Twitter that Oded is playing the same Jafar as Naveen. They're not pulling another Ursula situation on us. As for Jafar's history, I imagine they'll also work in a way to have Jafar in the present day, too. I can't see the writers wanting to contain him to just flashback appearances. I guess somebody could find his bottle, and release him.