Its futuristic, glass-and-metal design does bear some resemblance to the Taco Bell of Demolition Man where, to Stallone’s bemusement, he and his sidekick/love interest Sandra Bullock set off for a classy dinner.
But on Tuesday, the California-based fast-food company did release a rendering of its fancy new flagship Cantina store in Las Vegas (pictured above). Fortunately (or unfortunately), that hasn’t come to pass yet.
And, believe it or not, Demolition Man may have just done that.Įnvisioning the world in 2032, the Stallone/Snipes vehicle’s best remembered prediction is that, in the aftermath of the franchise wars, Taco Bell is the only restaurant left standing. It’s a terrrrrible movie.īut it only takes one semi-accurate act of augury to cement celluloid immortality. In the (reasonably small) genre of future-predicting films, the 1993 action flick Demolition Man gets the short shrift when held against such classics as Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Spielberg’s Minority Report, or Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021.
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