Alec Baldwin shoots and kills cinematographer on set of Rust

How the (expletive) does this happen?

https://nypost.com/2021/10/21/2-injured-during-prop-gun-mishap-on-set-of-alec-baldwin-film-rust

 

Jesus. An accidental killing on the set of a movie about an accidental killing.

 

Jon-Erik Hexum's Fatal Joke

 

I'm guessing Christian Bale wasn't available (ducks)

 

Somewhere in the great beyond, Brandon Lee shrugged and said, "It happens, man."

 

Vic Morrow springs to mind.

 

Usually he just shoots off his mouth.

 

All these headlines imply Baldwin was somehow responsible.

Was he fucking around with the gun? Or did it misfire in the course of filming or rehearsing a scene?

Just as likely the 'fault' lies with the propmaster/armorer, as it did in the case of Brandon Lee.

Heartbreaking.

 

I know someone working on this movie! (Not either of the 2 people who were shot)

 

Probably live ammo ended up in with the blanks. Which anyone handed the 'prop' would never know.

 

I'm a little stunned that the guns used as props are still capable of firing rounds.

 

It'll be more complicated than that. There's never any live ammo on a movie set. At least there shouldn't be.

Again, like the Brandon Lee tragedy, it's more likely a couple of sequential fuck-ups that end with a barrel obstruction and a too-powerful blank.

Or an antique prop gun that explodes with both the DP and the director in proximity.

I'm shocked we're still bothering to fire blank loads on set. You're going to lay in the gunshot sound effects later anyway, and you can simulate the muzzle flash with CGI, as they do in 'John Wick.'

Just stupid to have explosive loads of any kind in these guns.