Over the decades, few film debates have endured as much as Demolition Man’s three seashells. The weird, seemingly throwaway detail in the 1993 film starring Sylvester Stallone, Sandra Bullock, and Wesley Snipes has long been a point of contention among fans and now we can at least put one aspect of that debate to bed: where, exactly, that detail came from. To briefly recap, Demolition Man is about a 1996 cop who is frozen and reanimated in 2032 to help stop a criminal from his time .
But you instantly think about it and, in an interview that recently surfaced on X, one of Demolition Man’s writers, Daniel Waters, explained where he got the idea. Apparently, this is a story that’s been out there before but we hadn’t heard it and figured you all might be interested too. Basically, Waters couldn’t think of something futuristic in the bathroom, called his friend and fellow writer Larry Karaszewski who happened to be in the bathroom at the moment.