Alec Baldwin shoots and kills cinematographer on set of Rust

I shouldn't laugh. Because someone died.

But I did.

 

You wonder how insurance companies haven’t shut this down hard before now, although I feel very certain they’re about to.

 

To go along with the aforementioned labor conditions, the gun apparently misfired three times. Yikes.

 

My source is coming home to New Jersey. He doesn’t think they are going to finish the movie.

 

Completely understandable but also sad they won’t be able to see it through and have that experience together as they work through the trauma

 

When any of a dozen heavy industries so much as get together for coffee, the first thing they have is a safety briefing -- location of the fire exits, who knows CPR, what emergency number to call, whom to contact.

This episode sounds similar to the Gregg Allman movie, when the crew was filming on active railroad tracks without permission. Interestingly, the family of the crew member killed successfully sued CSX. I thought the whole threat of the SAG strike was to establish better working conditions.

 

I remember being shook by the Jon-Erik Hexum death as a kid. My Mom loved watching "Voyagers" with me and my sister.

Wasn't there some kind of urban legend in the '90s regarding Lee and how he was actually murdered?

 

If what has been reported bears out - Baldwin probably faces greater legal jeopardy as a producer of the film than as the one who pulled the trigger. Though I'm guessing his producer credit is more in exchange for lowering his fee than anything else. Goodness what a terrible story.

 

There's nothing in Aarne-Thompson, but it's after two in the morning. I'll look again tomorrow.

 

Detailed explainer thread by a film armorer here.

 

Yeah, if only those were the same situation.