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A infografia explica o disparo fatal nas filmagens de “Rust” e os procedimentos legais subsequentes.
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O emaranhado legal sobre o disparo nas filmagens de “Rust”

By Ninian Carter

May 9, 2022 - Seis meses após o tiro que matou a diretora de fotografia Halyna Hutchins nas filmagens do western de baixo orçamento “Rust”, vários intervenientes processaram os produtores e a equipa.

It’s six months since movie star Alec Baldwin accidentally killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the low-budget western “Rust”, when a gun he was holding went off.

The accident happened on October 21, 2021, while rehearsing a scene inside a wooden chapel on Bonanza Creek Ranch in New Mexico – a popular western location seen in the likes of Jimmy Stewart’s 1955 “The Man from Laramie” and Paul Newman and Robert Redford’s 1969 “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”.

As the crew worked out positions for the scene, Baldwin, playing a grizzled 1880s Kansas outlaw, inadvertently fired a live round from an Italian-made Pietta Long Colt revolver replica – the bullet passing through Hutchins’ chest and lodging in director Joel Souza’s shoulder.

Hutchins died in flight to the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque, while Souza was later discharged from hospital nursing a wound.

As ensuing investigations run their course, several key players have issued negligence law suits against Rust Movie Productions, LLC and members of the crew. Hutchins’ family have also filed a wrongful death suit which names Baldwin, assistant director Dave Halls, Armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, prop master Sarah Zachry, and others as defendants – seeking unspecified damages.

On April 10, 2022, the producers, of which Baldwin is one, were fined $136,793 by New Mexico Occupational Health and Safety Bureau, who said “management knew that firearm safety procedures were not being followed on set and demonstrated plain indifference to employee safety”.

Criminal investigations by Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office and the First Judicial District Attorney are awaiting completion of an FBI ballistics report and other evidence before they can draw conclusions as to how a live bullet wound up in a movie prop revolver.

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PUBLISHED: 10/05/2022; STORY: Graphic News
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