On 21 October, Alec Baldwin shot dead cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza with a prop gun during the filming of the upcoming. 26.10.2021, Sputnik International
member. the production company, rocket soul studios, said halls was serving as an a.d., an assistant director, on the film freedom path when a muzzle-loading rifle accidentally discharged on set, causing a sound crew member to get medical treatment and halted production. so this wasn t his first gun incident on a job. and the head armorer wasn t 100% confident in what she was doing, specifically loading blarnks ino a gun. though, again, if it is a blank, then the loading part isn t your problem. it s that they had live ammo on set. why would you have that in a make-believe situation? now we re hearing multiple reports, that there were at least two accidental prop gun i keep using that word.
24-year-old gutierrez was the armorer on rust but said she worked as head armorer on another film for the first time. by all means i m still learning. i think loading blanks was like the scariest thing to me. i don t know anything about it. discussing her previous experience on a podcast. i was really nervous about it at first, and i almost didn t take the job because i wasn t sure if i was ready. two people who worked closely with the assistant director dave halls tell cnn he was the subject of complaints over safety and his behavior on set during two protecductions in 20 rkts including a failure to hold safety meetings or to announce the presence of a firearm on set. cnn has learned halls was previously fired from another film after a crew member was injured in a gun incident, according to rocket soul studios. neither halls nor gutierrez responded to a cnn request for comment. no charges have been filed as the investigation continues. hutchins son and husband were