Nearly four years after Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun with a live bullet that hit and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust, the movie is getting a quiet, simultaneous release in theaters and on digital platforms.
Written and directed by Joel Souza—who was also injured when the prop gun went off, but recovered—Rust is a western set in Kansas in the 1880s, starring Baldwin as an elderly outlaw named Harland, who comes out of hiding to save his 13-year-old grandson from a death sentence. Grandpa and grandson go on the run together, trying to evade a bounty hunter played by Travis Fimmel.
On October 21, 2021, Baldwin discharged a prop gun that was supposed to be carrying a blank. Instead, a live bullet fired, hitting the 42-year-old Hutchins who was air-lifted off the set, and later died. Both Baldwin and Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed were charged with
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