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‘Rust’ Director and New Cinematographer Explain How and Why the Film Was Completed After Halyna Hutchins’ Death
'Rust' director Joel Souza explains why the troubled Western was later completed after DP Halyna Hutchins was accidentally killed during filming.
Star and producer Alec Baldwin, who was handling the prop gun at the time of the accident, was charged with manslaughter but the case was dismissed on the grounds that the prosecution had failed to turn over evidence. In an eerie echo, “Rust” actually tells the story of a 13-year-old boy who, left to fend for himself and his younger brother following their parents’ deaths in 1880s Wyoming, goes on the run with his estranged grandfather (Baldwin) after he’s sentenced to hang for the accidental killing of a local rancher in a gun accident. Souza noted, for instance, that when filming resumed, there were a couple of cast members who didn’t return, including the part of the Marshall, originally played by Jensen Ackles, and later by Josh Hopkins.
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