The movie Rust and the tragedy on the set. The loaded gun, Alec Baldwin's lethal shot, the fine

The maximum possible fine was applied to the film production of the film 'Rust',

guilty of pulling the trigger on what he believed was an unloaded weapon.

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have in fact turned good faith into a tragedy.

under the blows of a weapon

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The lawsuit, focused on the regulation of safety at work, led to

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Alec Baldwin's desperation after the accident

"The security coordinator was present on the set and did not take any direct action to address the problems", reads the reasons that sentence

: "If standard safety procedures had been followed, Hutchins' death and Souza's injury would have been avoided ”.

The lawyer of Hutchins had pointed the finger at the director: "Like in a Russian roulette without checking or waiting for the weapons manager". 

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Victim Hutchins served as director of photography on 2020 action film 'Archenemy': a graduate of the American Film Institute in 2015, she was named a "rising star" by the American Cinematographer in 2019.

From the first nuances to the

, New Mexico.

On the set of Rust, one of the "takes" proved fatal.

Baldwin's impromptu shooting, for fun, ended in the worst way.

The two unfortunates were unfortunately within range.

Unaware, the director and actor, that the gun was loaded with live bullets.

Then the drama that is partially intertwined with the plot.

Set in the 1880s in Kansas,

, also looking after the younger brother, after the premature death of his parents.

The teenager begins an escape with his grandfather, played by Baldwin, after he is sentenced to hang for the accidental killing of a ranch owner.

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The Bonanza Creek Ranch

The production company that first got its hands on, after the first rumors had to learn the terrible ending.

It emerged that the prop

was used off-set for target practice.

Between breaks, staff members would train by replacing the fake bullets with real ones.

Therefore Baldwin at that moment, unaware, would have fired and killed.

Investigations focused on

, in her early 20s, described as reckless with guns by those who worked with her previously, and

, who handed the gun to Baldwin and yelled ' cold gun '(unloaded gun, 

).

From old stories gathered by the US media emerged as Gutierrez-Reed in the past "put a gun in the hand of an actress of only 11 years without special controls or instructions".

Some members of Rust's troupe also noted the lack of caution in handling weapons and would have pointed this out to Halls. 

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The entrance closed to access the Rust movie set

The latter in 2019 was the subject of complaints during the recording of two film productions,

on weapons and pyrotechnic effects but also of inappropriate behavior.

Halls himself had a skeleton in the closet at the time of the accident.

At CNN, Rocket Soul Studios, where Halls worked as an assistant director on the film "Freedom's Path", revealed of an explosion produced by an "unexpectedly discharged" gun.

An episode that took the director out of the film.