AP Images. My feelings [about Sondra Locke] were the normal feelings you have when someone has been planning for many months to assault your children’s inheritance. —Clint Eastwood Sondra Locke’s very existence was a recurring nightmare for Clint. Every time he thought she was out of his life, she returned, and every time the bad dream got a little worse. In December 1990 Locke had finalized the details of her lawsuit against Clint, and before the start of the traditional Christmas break, when the entire industry disappears from town until after New Year’s, she had moved into her new offices at Warner, per her settlement deal with Clint. She pored over scripts in search of a new project to develop, eager to get something going because Oh Baby had collapsed due to Orion’s lapse into bankruptcy. Knowing that Arnold Schwarzenegger had shown some interest in playing the lead, Locke figured it was a no-brainer to walk it over to Warner. She confidently pitched it to Terry Semel and Tom Lassally, together with a shooting script and Schwarzenegger’s interest.
