Instead, Stallone campaigned for the famous martial artist and actor Jackie Chan to play the time-crossed bad guy. At the time, it was a commentary on the AIDS crisis, but now it takes on a different tone because of coronavirus. Suddenly my love of the word hug has been replaced with the word “social distancing.” I heard the phrase used off in the distance in the Town Hall and I had to ask the wonderful Beth Hamilton, our assistant assessor, to tell me what it was all about. A police officer is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent nemesis who is loose in a non-violent future society. Schwarzenegger and Stallone were intense rivals, Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah unveiled an amendment, Schwarzenegger's 20th anniversary as a U.S. citizen, Daniel Waters spilled the beans on their origin, Meryl Streep playing John Spartan's daughter. What, am I going to be Mr. Anti-Politically-Correct now? But apparently, Snipes wasn't the first pick for the bad guy. Even traditional sex is forbidden and forgotten, having been replaced by “Vir-Sex” technology, virtual reality helmets with which to emulate pleasure. During his interview, he seemed kind of uncomfortable with all the praise about the film’s prescience. Sex is now done virtually, meetings can be called into remotely, and characters give each other air high fives instead of handshakes. One of the things you notice about John Spartan fairly early in Demolition Man — even before he's put in deep freeze — is that he doesn't work and play well with the people in charge. One of the more memorable and bizarre aspects of Demolition Man's worldbuilding is the only restaurant chain left standing in 2032. Three Seashells in Demolition Man Are Trending Amid Toilet Paper Panic Sylvester Stallone's seminal action flick Demolition Man is now trending on social media thanks to the three seashells method. Subscribe for 2 years and get an extra 1-month, 1-year-, or 2-year plan added to your cart at checkout. Unlike most Taco Bells, the location was made to appear as a fancy, expensive restaurant, complete with four-course meals served artfully on silver plates. In April 2020, screenwriter Daniel Waters told Vulture that there actually was a scene filmed with Spartan reuniting with his daughter, who was played by Elizabeth Ruscio. All he could find were three seashells. Fresh from her role in the successful A League of Their Own, Petty was cast as John Spartan's love interest in Demolition Man, but in spite of it taking six months to select Petty for the role, she was fired after only two days of filming. Some said they had been social distancing, but no one was wearing a mask. Just cut it.' Years after Demolition Man's release, it turned out Sylvester Stallone sometimes had that in common with his character. The ending moral seems to be that there should always be a middle ground, but some folks have taken a more extreme interpretation. Of course that hasn't happened, but ten years after Demolition Man, Schwarzenegger became governor of California, and in 2020, the U.S. president was known for being the star of a reality show. Demolition Man took political correctness and blew it … ... Social distancing stops the spread of STDs, the hunka-chunka and other recreational activities; Sandra Bullock enjoys VR sex (presumably with … Chan turned the role down, reportedly because he didn't want to play a villain. In Demolition Man, Officer Huxley specifically calls out … Officer Erwin (Rob Schneider) laughs at the realization that "he doesn't know how to use the three seashells!" “So, this guy was saying, ‘Look at this! In the movie, physical contact has been largely banned. I’m a 37 yr old man with two plates of eggs just crying cuz i miss my mom and can’t go see her without having a panic attack. Other parallels come up, like the mention in the movie of Arnold Schwarzenegger becoming president. In retrospect, it's pretty tough to imagine someone like Chan — whose known for relatively family-friendly portrayals of heroes — playing someone as sadistic as Simon Phoenix. The movie isn’t deep by any stretch, but it does make you think. Zig Zag: The Politics of Culture. TP shortages and Social Distancing and a Biochip Implant was premeditated in the 1993 movie, Demolition Man, with Sylvester Stallone and Sandra Bullock. Born May 16, 1926 son of Rosario Dottore, born in Alcara Li Fusi, Sicily and Giusippina Capodicasa, born in Ravanusa, Argianti, Sicily husband of the late Mary Ann nee Halicki dear father of Rosanne C. Jones Tom According to the suit, Stallone was owed 15% of all gross profits from the film and that Warner Bros had stopped payments in 1997. My doppelganger is that rebelling greeting card from Futurama. In 1993, the cinematic masterpiece, “Demolition Man” made some predictions about what life might be like in the future. With Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne. Moderate 19 of 46 found this moderate. In 2018, Stallone amended the suit, claiming there were three more films — 1986's Cobra, 1989's Tango & Cash, and 1994's The Specialist — that Warner Bros had shorted him on. Speaking of Huxley's retelling of the fictional history, Waters said, "That speech, it seems so reasonable now.". That's one of the messages you inevitably come away with after watching 1993's sci-fi action flick Demolition Man. In the movie, physical contact has been largely banned. After an earthquake in 2010, a series of diseases, fear, and panic, the community found solace in the ideas of a revolutionary man: Doctor Raymond Cocteau. Stallone said he finally complained to the studio in 2014, leading to a payout of $2.8 million, but that it still didn't cover what he was owed. While speaking to Vulture in April 2020, screenwriter Daniel Waters said he never meant for Demolition Man to be prophetic, but at the same time, he couldn't deny some uncanny parallels between his story and the America of the 21st century. Is it nearly 30 years since Demolition Man came out? The official reason given was "creative differences," though in a 1995 issue of Spy (via Pop Cult Master), Petty said she was fired because she didn't get along with Stallone, describing their chemistry as "oil and water.". After awakening from cryo-freeze and being inducted into the San Angeles Police, John Spartan goes to the restroom but soon returns to report to his fellow officers they're out of toilet paper. In 2019, news surfaced that an agreement was reached between Stallone and Warner Bros. No details were revealed, but lawyers from both sides told Variety that the suit was settled, allowing everyone involved to — as the people of 2032 might put it — enhance their calm. Fact. Of course, no project in Hollywood is guaranteed until it's in the theater. Perhaps the most memorable of all of the strange and funny worldbuilding elements in Demolition Man are the mysterious three seashells. Whether or not you've seen Demolition Man, there's a lot you may not know about what's arguably the most unique Stallone film you're likely to find, from the casting to the different versions of the movie to legal battles decades after its release. He joined Demolition Man late in the game to rework the existing script (which had started out as a traditional action flick), adding humor and futuristic takes on modern popular culture. I can totally see it. The movie took place in a sanitized 2032 Los Angeles whose metaphor of government overreach feels all too familiar in this current state of social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Chan lost the opportunity to appear in Demolition Man, but that means no matter what else you can accuse him of, no one can ever blame him for Dennis Rodman. There's a long history of science fiction writers and Hollywood clashing over the subject of plagiarism. If nothing else, the advancements in CGI over the past few decades should certainly open up whole new possibilities for a Demolition Man sequel. Nemere said he looked into the possibility of a lawsuit, but that the legal costs of pursuing the matter were simply more than he could manage. "I have a wonderful Demolition Man pinball machine," he said, "a complete set of Demolition Man toys, and a small-scale collection of the vehicles." For more specifics, keep reading for the untold truth of Demolition Man. Pretty much everything about the "brave new world" of 2032 shocks John Spartan, but one of his funnier responses comes when Officer Huxley is driving him around San Angeles. Waters said he and Silver discussed the possibility of a sequel to Demolition Man, and he also revealed that Silver had someone very specific in mind to play Spartan's offspring. Waters claimed he doubted she would do it, and to date, he doesn't think anyone ever approached her about it. “Somebody linked me to this die-hard—I’ll put it charitably—libertarian guy who wrote ‘Actually, Demolition Man is the great thesis statement of the ’90s.’ It’s like, whoa, whoa. For more, make sure you’re following us on our Instagram @io9dotcom. Once permission is given the social controls that previously inhibited such behaviour disappear. A lot of those parallels were related to the COVID-19 pandemic, most obviously because of social distancing. In 2018, Taco Bell and the San Diego Comic-Con commemorated the 25th anniversary of Demolition Man by briefly transporting one of the movie's locations to the real world. In a 2010 interview, the novelist said that much of the film was lifted from his book Fight of the Dead, in which a terrorist and the man hunting him both hibernate for 173 years, eventually waking in the 22nd century to learn that violence is no longer a part of society. In 2003, Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah unveiled an amendment he wanted to add to the U.S. Constitution called the Equal Opportunity to Govern Amendment, though it would soon earn the nickname "the Arnold Amendment." As I browse the aisles a soothing voice plays overhead reminding me to maintain social distancing. Demolition Man (1993) Parents Guide Add to guide . One of Demolition Man’s main tenets is how the future is overly politically correct, something that Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes’ characters actively work to overcome over the course of the movie.