The movie industry was shocked after the terrible incident in the movie set of Rust, in which actor and producer Alec Baldwin accidentally shot a prop gun that killed photography director Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza. A couple of weeks after the casualty, Baldwin and some members of the production are facing the first civil lawsuit for negligence.
The lighting director for the film Rust, Serge Svetnoy, on Wednesday, filed the first civil lawsuit against US actor and producer Alec Baldwin and other members of the production team on the film after the shooting death of photography director Halyna Hutchins during filming.
At a press conference in Los Angeles, Svetnoy, who was also wounded by the bullet that killed Hutchins, said that in between takes on the Rust set he had seen guns left “unattended in the sand” during the filming of the Western on Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Due to these conditions on the set and the later fatal accident, Svetnoy filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court for negligence against the producers of the film, including Baldwin, as well as against the assistant director and the woman in charge of the Rust weaponry.
Just two days ago, Alec Baldwin pleaded for the mandatory presence of police officers at movie and television sets that use prop weapons.
Text and photos courtesy of EFE
