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Botched sequel; Nino Brown name origin; Chris Rock crack-pocket anecdote; Sundance premiere; comic-book visual design
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- Ice T said the sequel was botched by his Cop Killer trouble and by Snipes getting $7 million for Demolition Man.
- In the sequel idea Nino survived the shooting, which is doubted, though one participant says he would have been there opening weekend.
- Simon Phoenix from Demolition Man is called one of the great movie villains.
- The name Nino Brown came from Nino Gabriel, a storefront on Third Avenue where Harlem gangsters bought shoes, per Barry Michael Cooper.
- According to Chris Rock on Inside the Actor's Studio in 1994, dealers put crack and cocaine in his pockets for three years afterward, joking they thought it was a documentary.
- The film premiered at Sundance in January in only the festival's second year, after Sex Lise and Videotape (transcribed form).
- According to Cooper, they intentionally used a comic-book look, making Nino's mansion like Dracula's lair to suggest he was sucking the blood out of the neighborhood.
- A question whether Snipes played a vampire in Blade sparks a mock rebuke about asking "King nerd Van Lathan".