

Waters added, "Ironically enough that guy was taking a dump when he answered the phone, looked around his bathroom and said 'I have a bag of seashells on my toilet as a decoration?' I said 'Okay, I’ll make something out of that.'" (via Den of Geek). Waters explained at the Q&A that he was struggling to come up with futuristic things to find in a 2032 toilet, explaining, " I called my buddy, another screenwriter across town, asked him if he had any ideas." The story is totally in keeping with the ridiculousness of Demoltion Man as a movie, too. More futuristic locations were found at the New Los Angeles Convention Center, 1202 South Figueroa Street between Pico Boulevard and 11th Street, downtown Los Angeles the Museum of Contemporary Art, 250 South Grand Avenue, also downtown Los Angeles Sawpit Dam, Monrovia Mountain Park, North Canyon Boulevard, north of Monrovia, east of Los Angeles and the San Diego Convention Center the Park Place Office Campus, 3345 Michelson Drive and the Koll Center, 18301 Von Karman, both in Irvine.Waters, though he didn't reveal how to truly use the three seashells in Demolition Man, did detail how he came up with the idea and gave more information about the call with his screenwriter friend. The city's transport system is the America Plaza trolley station, One America Plaza, 600 West Broadway, in Downtown San Diego. The ‘San Angeles Police Department HQ’, out of which she works, is the Prudential Building, Thousand Oaks Boulevard, north of Highway 101, Westlake Village in the San Fernando Valley. Lt Huxley’s angular, green and blue glass apartment block can be found in the inner court of the Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood. Note that the poster on the office of Lt Lenina Huxley ( Sandra Bullock) wall is for Lethal Weapon III, another Silver production.ĭemolition Man film location: Sandra Bullock’s futuristic apartment block: Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood, Los Angeles The giant spiral prison set is based on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum in New York – producer Joel Silver is a devotee of the architect and lives in a landmark Wright house in Los Angeles. ‘San Angeles’, the Santa Barbara-Los Angeles-San Diego Metroplex, is a conflation of all three cities.

Nigel Hawthorne (who was lobbying to recreate his stage role in The Madness of King George on screen), establishes his Hollywood cred as the regulation British villain. Los Angeles, and its surrounds, provide the location for the crime-free, politically-correct 21st century West Coast sprawl of ‘San Angeles’, where deep-frozen rogue cop John Spartan ( Sylvester Stallone) is thawed out to combat psycho-criminal Simon Phoenix ( Wesley Snipes).
