Demolition Man 2 would've been a Meryl Streep-starring father-daughter story
Apparently, the original film had a huge subplot about Stallone’s time-displaced police officer finding his now-adult daughter in the future. At the time, it was an assumption that co-star Sandra Bullock was going to turn out to be the daughter, but the whole subplot was cut from the film because it was too maudlin. In fact, Stallone’s daughter was going to be older than him, and was played in the cut scenes by actress Elizabeth Ruscio.share
This was just one of the details that Demolition Man co-writer Daniel Waters shared when he spoke on a May episode of The Projection Booth podcast, about the time that producer Joel Silver pitched him on the follow-up after the film had a great overseas box office. “I get a call from Joel,” Waters said. “‘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.'” Wait, what?