Demolition Man (1993) on Netflix
In 1996 Los Angeles, officer John Spartan is nicknamed the Demolition Man for the destruction he leaves behind. Frozen with killer Simon Phoenix, he is revived in 2032 to catch him.
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Plot summary
Simon Phoenix takes a busload of passengers hostage in Los Angeles in 1996. Officer John Spartan storms the building without authorization after a thermal scan shows no trace of them; Phoenix sets off explosives, and when the rubble is searched the passengers are found dead. Both men are sentenced to the California Cryo-Penitentiary, where convicts are frozen and given subliminal rehabilitation. In 2032, San Angeles, a megalopolis merged from Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa Barbara under Dr. Raymond Cocteau, thaws Phoenix for a parole hearing, and he escapes using abilities he never had before. Lieutenant Lenina Huxley, drawn to 20th-century culture, learns of Spartan's record from veteran officer Zachary Lamb and persuades her superior to thaw Spartan and restore him to duty.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Demolition Man (1993)
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- Inspired by Wesley Snipes's look as Simon Phoenix, basketball star Dennis Rodman dyed and styled his hair the same way for his San Antonio Spurs debut, kicking off his habit of dyeing his hair different colors, though Snipes himself hated the hairstyle and shaved it off as soon as filming ended.
- Stallone wanted Jackie Chan for the role of Phoenix, but Chan turned it down, not wanting to play a villain. Wesley Snipes then turned the role down several times, so Joel Silver and Marco Brambilla went to the set of Rising Sun to try to convince him in person.
- The film's running gag about a futuristic bathroom using three seashells instead of toilet paper began when writer Daniel Waters phoned Larry Karaszewski for ideas, and Karaszewski happened to be in his own bathroom, decorated with a bag of seashells, when he answered.
- For the film's opening bungee stunt, stuntman Ken Bates jumped 300 feet from a Chinook helicopter using a decelerator instead of a real bungee cord for safety, something stunt coordinator Charles Picerni said had never been done from a helicopter before.
- For European audiences the film's Taco Bell was swapped for Pizza Hut, because Taco Bell was not as well known outside the United States and Canada; both restaurant chains were owned at the time by PepsiCo.
- Lori Petty was originally cast as Lenina Huxley but was fired after two days of filming over what Silver called “creative differences”; Petty attributed it to personality differences, saying she and Stallone “were like oil and water.”
