It may happen that an accident occurs during a shoot. But it is not common for the latter to make one dead and an injured person, and that an investigation for manslaughter is opened afterwards. However, this is what happened on the set of this feature film in 2021. More than three years after the drama and after a trial, this Western will be visible to the American public. However, the director regrets this project and would have hoped “never to have written a damn film”.
On October 21, 2021, the film shooting team Rust Prepares for a sequence at Bonanza Creek Ranch, in Santa Fe in the state of New Mexico. While actor Alec Baldwin unloads a firearm, given by the assistant director and he believes in charge of white, a bullet comes out and touches the director Joel Souza and the director of photography Halyna Hutchins. The latter succumbs from her injuries at the Albuquerque hospital. She was 42 years old. The filmmaker is injured.
After the shock, the question is who is responsible for the death of Halyna Hutchins: Alec Baldwin, who had the weapon in hand? The assistant-director who gave it to him? Or the Armorière, who has not done in -depth security check? The investigation reveals that other incidents and sprains of the security procedures had been noted with weapons a few days before the drama. Hannah Guttierez-Reed, Armorière responsible for firearms on the set of Rustwas sentenced on April 15, 2024 to 18 months in prison for manslaughter. Pursued for manslaughter, Alec Baldwin, also producer of the film, finally sees the trial canceled for procedural defect.
The shooting of Rust resumed in January 2023. This western which followed two fugitives prosecuted by a sheriff and a bonus hunter in the 1880s was finally presented in preview, in November 2024. In an interview with NBC News, director Joel Souza will say that the projection of the film is “Douce-Bénée”, while the family of the director of the photography, make profit from a tragedy. Rust Finally released in the United States on May 2, 2025, according to International Movie Database. No French date is for the moment announced.
