Trivia / Out for Justice

• California Doubling: To quote director John Flynn:
  We shot until October 31, 1990, because an IATSE^note International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts strike was threatened. 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.
• Completely Different Title:
  • "Furia Salvaje" ("Wild/Savage Fury") in the Latin American market.
  • Released as Deadly Revenge in Germany.
• Direct to Video: The film didn't get a theatrical release in places like France and Germany.
• Fake Nationality: Steven Seagal (who is of Dutch, English, German and Russian Jewish descent) as an Italian-American.
• Hostility on the Set:
  • Julianna Margulies was cast specifically by Steven Seagal for her role in this film, but she didn't enjoy working with him at all. She later said in an interview that she used to see Seagal working on projects for Warner Bros. while she was a regular on ER, and he would always say "Margulies, come over here and show me some respect". She bluntly said "he's not someone I keep in contact with."
  • John Flynn recalled:
  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.
  • Whilst on the production set, Seagal claimed that due to his Aikido training, he was 'immune' to being choked unconscious. It has been alleged that at some point Gene LeBell (who was a stunt coordinator for the movie) heard about the claim, and gave Seagal the opportunity to prove it. LeBell is said to have placed his arms around Seagal's neck, and once Seagal said "go", proceeded to choke him unconscious, with Seagal violently evacuating his bowels in the process. After refusing to comment for many years, LeBell confirmed the story in 2012. Whenever Seagal has been asked about the incident, he has constantly denied the allegations.
• Missing Trailer Scene: The theatrical trailer shows two deleted scenes; Richie shooting inside the clothing store from which he took his new shirt (in the movie he wears one shirt in first few scenes then all of a sudden he wears different one) and a scene where the police captain tells Gino that the body count is going up.
• Posthumous Credit: The part of Don Vittorio's heavyset bodyguard was played by professional wrestler Bialo the Giant who died almost half a year before the movie was released.
• Working Title: John Flynn later claimed the original title was The Price of Our Blood, "meaning Mafia blood. That was the title that Steven and I wanted, but Warner Bros. said no. It had to be a three-word title like the other Steven Seagal films (Above the Law (1988) and Marked for Death)".

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