Here’s some great trivia for you, though: had the sequel happened, it might – just might – have co-starred the Oscar-winning Meryl Streep. According to the Projection Booth – and picked up by Slashfilm – Demolition Man producer Joel Silver and co-writer Daniel Waters had actually talked about a sequel and what Stallone’s hero, John Spartan, might get up to. And one of the threads in that sequel would’ve seen Spartan track down the daughter he’d left behind when he was frozen in 1996; by 2023, the year he woke up, she’d of course grown into a full-grown woman. “I get a call from Joel,” Waters said of this short-lived project. “‘What do you think of this? Meryl Streep is Stallone’s daughter for the sequel. What do you think?’ I’m like ‘Okay, you get Meryl on the set and I’ll come out.’” Regrettably, Silver’s plans for Demolition Man 2 never panned out, and it isn’t clear whether he even approached Streep for the role of Spartan’s daughter, who we like to think was called Sophie Spartan.
