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{{quote| The difficulties surrounding [[Sigourney Weaver]]'s contract negotiations were such that James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd - recently married - announced that if the deal was not done by the time they got back from their honeymoon, they were out. When they returned, no progress had been made - so Cameron, determined to make the film and wary of the deadline scenario he had created, devised a scheme: he telephoned [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]'s agent for an informal chat and informed him that, thanks to his newfound standing in Hollywood following ''[[The Terminator]]'', he had decided to make this film entirely his own by writing Ripley out. As Cameron anticipated, Schwarzenegger's agent immediately relayed the information to his colleague representing Weaver at ICM, who in turn contacted [[Twentieth Century Fox]] Head of Production Lawrence Gordon; both men, determined that under no circumstances whatsoever would Ripley be written out, wasted no time in sealing Weaver's deal.}}