I only worked on it for two and a half weeks. became CityWalk? It just snowballed from there. There’s this place in Universal City called CityWalk, and the initial instinct was like, what if all of L.A. I basically pitched them the full Sleeper version. There was no attempt at comedy in the first drafts of the script. Any time anything politically correct goes a little too far … When Bloomberg did the, even then, people were saying, “This is the slippery slope to Demolition Man!” Its reputation has gotten so much better. When I’ve had too much to drink, I tend to go on the internet and look up “Daniel Waters Underrated,” then go to all my movies and “underrated.” But, if you look up “ Demolition Man Underrated,” you really hit the jackpot. I appreciate you taking a break from working on your novel to talk. And so, in the light of Demolition Man’s accidental coronavirus relevance, Vulture spoke to the movie’s writer, Daniel Waters - also of Heathers, Hudson Hawk, and Batman Returns fame - about being back in the news. It’s a portrayal of how normalcy can change, and of people who are uptight because upheaval is still a close enough memory that they have trouble bringing themselves to relax, no matter what the oblivious ’90s action hero in their midst might urge. Sandra Bullock’s character springing VR sex on an unprepared Stallone is funny, but her subsequent rant about the perils of fluid transfer is filled with real distress - an artifact of AIDS trauma that now feels COVID-applicable. What stands out are the indications that its futuristic society is one still recovering from the shock of its own near-collapse. It’s set, after all, in a near future in which handshakes have been replaced by an absurd no-contact alternative, the only surviving restaurant is Taco Bell, and people use a mysterious trio of seashells instead of toilet paper.ĭemolition Man may have been intended as a goof about restrictions on behavior and language, but it plays differently from a sheltering-in-place 2020 perspective. But the ongoing pandemic has a funny way of creating new resonance for familiar fare, and that’s been especially true for the 27-year-old action comedy. The sci-fi movie, which features Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes shooting and quipping their way through a scandalized, sanitized 2032 Los Angeles, has been a cultural touchpoint ever since it came out in 1993 - particularly for the right, who’ve seized on its restrictive utopia as a metaphor for government overreach. When news of drones urging people to maintain social distancing made the online rounds earlier this month, a certain comparison kept cropping up: This looks like something out of Demolition Man.
Sylvester Stallone and Sandra Bullock give VR sex a go in Demolition Man.
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