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Due to Warner Brothers dislike of the first two plus hour long cut of the movie, as well as various behind-the-scenes problems, they hired editor Stuart Baird to do some re-editing. The same thing happened to another Sylvester Stallone movie, Tango & Cash (1989), which was also heavily re-edited by Baird and others. Originally, in this movie, there were some additional scenes including Spartan meeting his grown up daughter in the sewers amongst Edgar Friendly's people. While cut, we do see Spartan protecting a random girl during a shoot-out in sewers. This is his daughter. She is also seen again in the ending scene standing next to Friendly while he is talking with Spartan.Some violent scenes with Simon Phoenix were also cut down or removed completely. For example, a scene where he rips out warden Smithers eye, a scene near the end where he kills several people inside of the cryo prison with a machine gun, and a scene where he kills the guy from whom he took the car after escaping from the cryo prison. Also during the final fight between him and Spartan, Spartan was shown taking some loose wire and shocking him.Other deleted scenes include Phoenix killing Zachary Lamb after he escapes from the sewers, and Spartan and Huxley find Lamb and talk to him before he dies (note that Phoenix has his gun out when he enters the cop car, but he didn't in the previous shot) and before the car chase starts. Many extra lines of dialogue were cut out, but some can be heard in various trailers for the movie, and longer and additional action scenes were also deleted.Both the sewer battle sequence and final showdown in the cryo prison were heavily cut down, which caused some continuity mistakes in the final movie because there are six different cryo cons working with Simon, but only two are shown being killed in the movie when Spartan and Huxley arrive at Cocteau's building and fight with them. Due to massive cuts made in these sequences, the death scenes of ones who got killed by Spartan and others in sewers, and ones killed by him in the cryo prison were also cut out. The original cryo prison action finale included a scene where Spartan fights with and kills several more prisoners who were thawed out by Simon and who also injected them with megadrenalin to wake them up faster and make them tougher to defeat, and this was also where the infamous deleted fight scene between Sylvester Stallone and Jesse Ventura took place.In the deleted action scene during the battle in sewers, Spartan goes on the bridge from which Phoenix and his gang are shooting, and starts to fight with Phoenix, but then the bridge turns over. While both of them are hanging on it, Phoenix says to Spartan that bus passengers which he failed to save back in 1996 were already dead, meaning that Spartan was sent to the cryo prison for nothing. In the movie, Phoenix says this to Spartan during the car chase near the end of the movie, but Phoenix is not shown speaking on-screen, which probably means that the dialogue from the deleted scene was placed in this scene or was dubbed by the actor. Some other deleted and alternate scenes can be seen in trailers, promotional photos, and are also in the comic book adaptation and novelization of the movie.

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