Actor Alec Baldwin accidentally shoots and kills the director of photography on the set of the film "Rust", the director injured
A prop pistol with blanks malfunctioned. The woman killed is Halyna Hutchins, 42. Joel Souza, on the other hand, is in critical condition
Tragedy during the filming of the western movie "Rust" at Bonanza Creek Ranch, near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Halyna Hutchins, director of photography, 42, died while director Joel Souza, 48, was injured. Firing a prop pistol was Alec Baldwin, the film's star and producer, according to the reconstruction of the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office. But the gun that was supposed to fire blanks, according to a Baldwin spokesperson, malfunctioned.
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It happened during the filming of a shooting sequence. The tragedy would have occurred due to the malfunction of a firearm, a pistol or a shotgun. Filming was immediately stopped. The Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper reported that Baldwin, 68, was seen crying outside the sheriff's office but could not get a comment from him.
The images from the top of the set of the tragedy: Alec Baldwin fires a prop pistol, a dead woman and a wounded
The International Cinematographers Guild, an international association of cinematographers, has made it known through the mouth of its president John Lindley and executive director Rebecca Rhine that "the details are not clear at the moment, but we are working to find out more and we support an investigation. complete on this tragic event ".
Hutchins was director of photography on the 2020 action film “Archenemy”: she graduated from the American Film Institute in 2015, she was named a “rising star” by American Cinematographer in 2019. “I'm very sad to have lost Halyna. And so infuriated that this could have happened on a set, ”Archenemy director Adam Egypt Mortimer said on Twitter. And again: «she was a brilliant talent absolutely committed to art and cinema».
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Sheriff's spokesperson, Juan Rios, said officers came in at around 2pm local time at Bonanza Creek Ranch after 911 calls that reported a person who had received gunshots on the film's set. Investigators investigate the type of bullet. "This investigation remains open and active," said the spokesman, adding that "no charges have been filed in relation to this incident" and that "witnesses continue to be questioned by investigators."
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"Rust", the film on which the tragedy occurred is an independent production western (also produced by Alec Baldwin himself) that was shooting at Bonanza Creek Ranch, a popular location for this kind of film, in southern Santa Fe in New Mexico. Baldwin plays the infamous outlaw Rust, whose 13-year-old grandson is sentenced to hang for the accidental killing of a ranch owner. In the cast Jensen Ackles plays the role of a US Marshal and Travis Fimmel plays a bounty hunter. Rust tries to break his nephew out of prison. While on the run, as Ackles and Fimmel hunt them down, an unexpected bond forms between the outlaw and his grandson. Filming was supposed to go on until early November, according to a communication from the New Mexico Film Office.
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