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Gun supervisor for 'Rust' movie to be sentenced for fatal shooting by Alec Baldwin on set (apnews.com)
submitted 7 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world
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A movie weapons supervisor is facing up to 18 months in prison for the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film “Rust,” with her sentencing scheduled for Monday in a New Mexico state court.

Movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was convicted in March by a jury on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and has been held for more than a month at a county jail on the outskirts of Santa Fe.

Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer for “Rust,” was pointing a gun at Hutchins when the revolver went off, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza.

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Prosecutors blamed Gutierrez-Reed for unwittingly bringing live ammunition onto the set of “Rust” where it was expressly prohibited and for failing to follow basic gun safety protocols. After a two-week trial, the jury deliberated for about three hours in reaching its verdict.

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[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 36 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Real guns don't need to be on movie/tv sets anymore.

Craig Zobel, the director of the Emmy-winning HBO miniseries “Mare of Easttown,” drew one of the first lines in the sand after “Rust” actor and producer Alec Baldwin fired the gun that killed Hutchins.

“There’s no reason to have guns loaded with blanks or anything on set anymore. Should just be fully outlawed,” Zobel tweeted early Friday while the country absorbed the news.

“There’s computers now. The gunshots on ‘Mare of Easttown’ are all digital,” he added. “You can probably tell, but who cares? It’s an unnecessary risk.”

He was soon joined by other producers and directors. Alexi Hawley, the showrunner of the ABC police procedural “The Rookie,” said in a memo to cast and crew members that there would be “no more ‘live’ weapons on the show.”

In the future, all gunfire on “The Rookie” will come from airsoft guns — replica toys that use pellets instead of bullets — with CGI muzzle flashes added in post-production, Hawley wrote in the memo, first reported by The Hollywood Reporter and confirmed by NBC News.

“Any risk is too much risk,” he wrote.

Eric Kripke, the showrunner for Amazon’s dark comedy “The Boys,” made a similar pledge: Source

[–] lolpostslol@kbin.social 28 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You can keep your fake-ass CGI gunshots to yourself, I will keep only watching movies where all deaths are real

[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Animals were definitely harmed during the making of this movie. And it wasn't just one or two, it was a pretty apalling number of them. We're not good people.

[–] reev@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago

I've been going through some of the IMDb top 100 and occasionally an animal will very clearly just really have died for that movie and I just don't understand why. Immediately ruins the entire movie for me every time. Oldboy being a great example.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

On the bright side they won't be able to fake out character deaths anymore. That that Jon Snow.

[–] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

You can even get airsoft guns with good blow back on them now.