Well, Rust is officially filming again
Alec Baldwin and director Joel Souza are both set to return to complete Rust, which resumes filming in a new location
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Rust, the Alec Baldwin-led Western notable for the accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, has resumed shooting. A spokesperson for Rust Movie Productions told CNN on Tuesday that principal photography for the movie would begin on Thursday, more than a year after the fatal incident that also injured director Joel Souza. Souza is returning to complete the film, along with Baldwin and many other cast and crew members.
A production source shared with CNN that “there are about 20-25 days of filming left on the project.” The church scene that was being filmed when the shooting occurred has been cut from the movie entirely. Additionally, filming will resume on the Yellowstone Film Ranch in Montana, rather than the original location of Bonanza Creek Ranch in New Mexico. Bianca Cline (Marcel The Shell With Shoes On) will serve as the new cinematographer and is reportedly donating her salary to charity in Hutchins’ name.
The resumed movie “will bar any use of working weapons and any form of ammunition,” said Melina Spadone, lawyer for Rust Movie Productions, per the BBC. “Live ammunition is—and always was—prohibited on set.”
Completion of Rust was part of the proposed settlement of the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the late cinematographer’s husband Matthew Hutchins, who is now included as an executive producer on the film. One of the actors, Devon Werkheiser (best known for starring in Nickelodeon’s Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide), recently stated that they would “never touch it” without Hutchins’ family’s blessing, but he was glad to return even though the situation is “super complicated.”
“You can’t separate the loss of life,” Werkheiser said on his podcast. “So I think on social media, say whatever the fuck you’re gonna say. I think critics—the movie’s never gonna be good enough to lose a person. Like, no movie is. So, I don’t think that will—but—for us personally, finishing this thing that like, harmed and hurt so many of us, and just, like, created this rift in our lives, I just, it feels like some kind of completion that feels right.”
Though filming is moving forward, the legal issues surrounding the Rust shooting are not yet resolved. Baldwin, who serves as a producer in addition to being the actor who pulled the trigger of the gun that killed Hutchins, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter. Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has also been charged, while first assistant director Dave Halls, who handed Baldwin the gun, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon.
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Truly an evil, greedy move by everyone involved. Movies get scrapped and turned into tax deductions all the time. This is an attempt to make money off the infamy of the movie. Fuck them all.
More movies than you know have resulted in the death of cast or crew. Obviously there are the famous cases like this, The Crow, and The Twilight Zone, but there’s lots more. The media frenzy over Heath Ledger’s (not film related) death covered up the fact that stunt technician Conway Wickliffe died during a car chase during filiming The Dark Knight, for example.
Exactly this. Back to the Future 2 almost killed a stuntwoman when they dropped her face first onto concrete for the Hoverboard crash.They are all tragic…but it’s still hard to compare to crashing a helicopter onto 2 small children and a lead actor. (Thanks for reminding me about Twilight Zone)This is why stunts should be in the Academy Awards…people are literally risking their lives for the populus’ entertainment.
Wouldn’t an Academy Award for stunts just encourage the industry to push their stunt people to attempt ever more insane and thus dangerous stunts?
There is a line of thought that says that’s exactly why stunts should NOT be in the Academy Awards. Just look at the insane lengths actors already go for Best Acting awards. You don’t want to encourage people to take risks with their lives to get awards.
The Guinness Book of World Records removed a lot of reward categories for similar reasons, and I think that was the right move. But I do think it’s fine to reward people for stunts as long as they’re performed safely (and to the people who figure out how to make them safe, come to think of it.)
Well, that’s stupid.
I don’t get it. This is bound to tank at the box office. With studios lately shelving finished projects as somehow being more lucrative than actually releasing them, why pour more money down this drain?
Fuck off with this shit. Seriously every other week for the passed year it’s been “they’re back filming” to “Alec Baldwin is being sued”. Just shut the hell up about this project already this thing has been so heavily dragged by now. The only reason anyone would go see this is so they can spot the scene where the gun points at the camera in a church.
How on earth is this not going to somehow be part of the marketting. Everyone is gonna refer to it as “oh that movie”. I don’t know that there’s a demographic of die hard western fans waiting in baited breathe. This movie will be notorious for only one thing when it gets released. Yeesh.