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Saturday, October 23, 2021

Repost: Alec Baldwin Fatally Shoots Director of Photography with a Prop Gun, Injures Director of Movie

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Source: www.bbc.com

A woman has died and a man has been injured after actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on a New Mexico film set for the 19th Century western Rust.

Halyna Hutchins, 42, was shot while working on the set as director of photography. She was flown to hospital by helicopter but died of her injuries.

The man, 48-year-old director Joel Souza, was taken from the scene at Bonanza Creek Ranch by ambulance.

Police said they were investigating and that no charges had been filed.

A spokesman for Mr Baldwin, best known for his role as Jack Donaghy on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock and for his portrayal of Donald Trump on sketch show Saturday Night Live, said the incident had involved the misfiring of a prop gun with blanks.

In a statement to AFP news agency, a Santa Fe sheriff spokesman said Mr Baldwin had spoken to detectives.

"He came in voluntarily and he left the building after he finished his interviews," the spokesman said.

Police are trying to establish what type of projectile left the prop gun and how. Mr Baldwin was seen outside the sheriff's office in tears, local media reported.

The actor is a co-producer of the film and plays its namesake, an outlaw whose 13-year-old grandson is convicted of manslaughter.

The eldest of four brothers, all actors, Mr Baldwin has starred in numerous TV and film roles since the 1980s.

Ms Hutchins was from Ukraine and grew up on a Soviet military base in the Arctic Circle, according to her personal website. She studied journalism in Kyiv, and film in Los Angeles, and was named a "rising star" by the American Cinematographer magazine in 2019.

She was the director of photography for the 2020 action film Archenemy, directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer.

"I'm so sad about losing Halyna. And so infuriated that this could happen on a set," Mr Mortimer said in a tweet.

In a statement, the International Cinematographer's Guild said Ms Hutchins' death was "devastating news" and "a terrible loss".

"The details are unclear at this moment, but we are working to learn more, and we support a full investigation into this tragic event," said guild president John Lindley and executive director Rebecca Rhine.

Police say sheriff's deputies were dispatched to Bonanza Creek Ranch, a popular filming location, at around 13:50 local time (19:50 GMT) after receiving an emergency call about a shooting on the set of Rust.

Incidents such as Thursday's fatal shooting on the Rust film set are extremely rare, but not unheard of.

Real firearms are often used in filming, and are loaded with blanks - cartridges that create a flash and a bang without discharging a projectile.

In 1993, Brandon Lee - the 28-year-old son of the late martial-arts star Bruce Lee - died on set after being accidentally shot with a prop gun while filming a death scene for the film The Crow.

It was later determined that the gun used had earlier fired a round that caused a cartridge to become lodged in the barrel. When blank rounds were later fired, the cartridge was dislodged and released.

Responding to Thursday's news, Brandon Lee's sister Shannon tweeted: "Our hearts go out to the family of Halyna Hutchins and to Joel Souza and all involved in the incident on 'Rust'. No-one should ever be killed by a gun on a film set. Period."

47 comments:

  1. 30 years since Brandon Lee incident. Grabe, hindi nadala. Sa lahat ng innovations sa cinema, dito palpak

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  2. Like what happened to Brandon Lee. Im sure accident lang tlaga. Alec baldwin is known for having a bad temper but im sure he wouldnt waste his almost 40-yr old career for this.

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    1. Girl, it was an accident. Pumasok pa sa isip mo na sinadya niya yun to even say he wouldn’t waste his career for it? At career pa niya naisip mo imbes na buhay na nawala. Nawindang ako sayo. Haha

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    2. hindi siguro masarap ang ulam ni 12:14 to twist 11:38's comment. i mean girl, grabe ang interpretative skills mo

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    3. Of course it is! kasalanan yan ng props department!
      He is providing jobs! Sya ang producer ng movie

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    4. 12:14 Wag mo palalain sinabi ni 11:38 nilagyan mo pa ng ibang meaning sinabi nya eh sinabi na nga nya na sure syang aksidente yun.

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    5. According sa Isang blind gossip site(google nyo na Lang mga marites) , alam ng mga cast and crew, and producers na may problema sa safety measures ng productions, at may mag walk diumano. It may have been an accident but it could have been prevented.

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    6. True 1:38, ang OA nga mag isip ng mga tao ngayon. Lahat nagmamagaling.

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    7. Gosh, gugustuhin ba nya makapatay at makasugat for real? Grabe dn maka assume.

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  3. Me temper talaga itong Baldwin na ito!

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    1. What?? What does his temper has to do with a prop master giving him a gun that was supposed to be checked to safety while rehearsing and shooting?? Walang kinalaman sa ugali ang aksidente SMH

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    2. There's something wrong with you. Nasa gitna sya ng shooting ateh. Ang weird ng brain mo.

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    3. Kaloka ka. Binasa mo ba?

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    4. Comprehension please....

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    5. bakla, malamang ongoing yung shoot nyan. Kaloka ka. Walang kinalaman yan

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    6. Wow besh dali report ka na sa NMPD because you know everything.

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    7. Did you not read the article?

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    8. Anong kinalaman ng temper nya? Kahit pinaka calm n tao mawiwindang pag aksidenteng nakapatay unless halamg talaga kaluluwa mo!

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    9. Ay wow, may conclusion agad! Basa basa din ng articles. Be a responsible mosang naman!

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    10. Di pa tapos ang imbestigasyon…pwedeng sinadya pwedeng hindi..ang pinagtataka ko lang is why the director of photography not a fellow actor or something ang tinamaan kung accident..

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    11. 217 likely headline lang binasa ni 1202 tapos diretso comment. kainis mga di nagbabasa talaga

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    12. 9:26 Probably the director of photography was in the line of sight of the camera or standing next to it.

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    13. 9:26AM: According sa report, yung shot na kinukunan ay facing si Alec Baldwin sa camera para yung makikita ng audience ay yung gunshot (and bala, I suppose) na parang tatama sa kanila. Kaya yung DOP ang napuruhan. Pero malakas rin ang bala kasi tumagos kay DOP at tinamaan pa yung direktor na nasa likod niya. Sobrang sad pero may security and safety lapses/issues rin kasi sa set.

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    14. 9.26 am: baks may nabasa ako, during ng rehearsal yata. :(

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  4. this is so unfortunate

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  5. Oh this is sad. Prop coordinator should be answerable to this. RIP to the cinematographer. And I could only imagine the guilt Alec feels.

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    1. True! Triple check dapat lagi yung mga ganyang props. Then check again right before the scenes

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  6. I feel bad for everyone involved.

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  7. Wait, how did this happen?! I thought they use fake guns in the movies???

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    1. Real guns but blank bullets ( not sure)

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    2. Prop guns can be real guns but with blank bullets.

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    3. Supposed to be blank bullets but apparently this one was not.

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  8. naalala ko yung news sa isang bata na pinaglalaruan yung baril ng tatay nya. ayun nabaril nga niya tatay niya 😵

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  9. isang tanong lang. bat may totoong baril sa set?????? di ba pwedeng laro laro lang ???

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    1. Iba kasi pag real guns. Yung effect like recoil and weight makikita mo talaga unlike fake ones. Pero blank bullets naman yun. Yun nga lang pag pumalpak can still be fatal.

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    2. Real guns ang ginagamit kaya lang blank bullets

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    3. Pwede totoong baril, pero dapat ang ammo hindi live. Anyway, accident ang nangyari, pero kailangan mag-explain yung mga props men.

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  10. Katakot real guns gamit nila sa set since makaluma ang setting, they use old guns pero blank cartridges but still it'd obviously metal at can cause injury pa rin

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  11. Make plastic replica na lang ng mga baril, tapos use cgi na lang sa spark and use recorded sound sa putok ? More time ay expensive ata yun not sure

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    1. Hollywood people still have never learned after the Bruce Lee and his son incident😢😥😭

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  12. Heartbreaking photo, for sure habambuhay nya yang dadalhin ang bigat sa puso, ako nga nakatapak lang ng maliit na daga namatay e up to now nakokonsensya parin ako e

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  13. Sa sobrang advanced ng CGI ngayon lalo na sa hollywood dapat di na sila gumagamit ng ganyan. OMG.

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  14. I hope not pero bakit parang may nagfframe s kanya sa set :(

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  15. Naalala ko ung isa pang aksidente s taping, back in the 80s, Twilight Zone un. Nagka aksidente ung helicopter resulting to decap**ated actor and 1 child actress and isa pang child actress crushed nung heli. Nakakapanlambot. Sana holliwood would have a better sense when it comes to safety sa set after nitong pangyayari

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  16. Omg, they never learned anything from what happened to Brandon Lee. What a shame. People shouldn’t be dying from making movies. It’s just a movie after all. It’s not worth dying.

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  17. Felt sad for Alec, and to the victims. This incident will hunt him for life even if he doesn's want this to happen. Accidents suck!

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  18. Even though it was a prop gun, why was he aiming it at a person anyway. They should always aim it a slight angle away from anyone in front of them. That’s just basic safety protocol.

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