shocking revelation about a filmmaker

Following the accidental death of Halyna Hutchins, director of photography on the set of the western Rust, Thursday, October 21, 2021, Agence France Presse questioned the production company. The latter made shocking revelations about the accident involving actor Alec Baldwin. “The assistant director who gave Alec Baldwin the weapon responsible for the death of a cinematographer on set last week had already been fired from a previous film for an accident involving a gun,” we learned Monday from the production company “, reports theAFP. The news channel CNN specifies that “Production did not resume filming until Dave Halls was off-site. An incident report was completed and filed at that time.”

While all eyes have been on assistant director Dave Halls, investigators are also looking at 24-year-old gunsmith Hannah Gutierrez Reed. According to the preliminary report, she was the one who prepared the firearm in question. However, the latter was supposed to be fictitious.

After the fatal shot of Alec Baldwin, new rules on filming?

Alec Baldwin’s accidental shooting not only took the life of the 46-year-old cinematographer, it also injured filmmaker Joel Souza in the shoulder. The latter is recovering. This regrettable accident raises a fundamental problem: how did a real bullet end up on this shoot? While directors often prefer real guns to dummy guns for the sake of authenticity, they fire blank bullets and are never loaded with real ammunition. Still, they are potentially lethal weapons. The rules could change and real guns would then be banned from filming. Moreover, a petition to ban the use of real firearms on filming had collected more than 15,000 signatures Sunday, October 24, 2021, according to France Info.