Editing Out for Justice (section)

=== Re-editing ===
The movie was originally much longer and included more plot and characters. Seagal reportedly cut some of [[William Forsythe (actor)|William Forsythe]]'s scenes because he felt that Forsythe was upstaging him. Also, Warner Bros. brought in editor Michael Eliot to re-edit the original cut of the movie so that it would be shorter and more profitable at the box office. Eliot did the same job on a few other Warner Bros. movies - [[Wes Craven]]'s sci-fi horror ''[[Deadly Friend]]'' (1986) and [[Mark L. Lester]]'s action movie ''[[Showdown in Little Tokyo]]'' (1991). Some scenes were deleted, and some others were cut for pacing, so two montage scenes with no dialogue are in the movie. Re-editing also caused some minor continuity mistakes. The theatrical trailer shows two deleted scenes: Richie shooting inside a clothing store from which he took a new shirt (in his first few scenes, he is wearing one shirt, then all of a sudden, he is wearing another shirt for the rest of the movie), and a scene where the police captain tells Gino that body count is going up. Some TV versions of the movie included two deleted scenes: Richie stealing the new shirt from store because he got blood on it (also seen in trailer), and Richie and his guys breaking into the house where Gino's wife is and trying to find her, but leaving when some neighbors show up.

Flynn later recalled:

<blockquote>I really liked working with Bill Forsythe and Jerry Orbach and all those guys in the car who played the killers. But I didn't get along with Steven. He was always about an hour late for work and caused a lot of delays. We shot until October 31, 1990, because an IATSE strike was threatened. (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts - Ed.) Warner Bros. told us we had to be on a plane by November 1. So we shot for about a month in Brooklyn. The rest of ''Out for Justice'' was shot in and around south Los Angeles. We filmed those scenes on Lacy Street, in a slummy area of old wooden buildings that could pass for Brooklyn.<ref name=john/></blockquote>Further cuts were made after the film received an [[NC-17]] rating for violence.<ref name="storynotes">{{cite web |title=Story Notes for Out for Justice |url=http://www.amc.com/talk/2013/11/story-notes-for-out-for-justice |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204165841/http://www.amc.com/talk/2013/11/story-notes-for-out-for-justice |archivedate=February 4, 2017 |access-date=February 3, 2017 |website=AMC}}</ref>