![]() But Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said that 500 rounds of ammunition were recovered from the set, including blanks, live rounds, and dummy rounds. Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the prop person in charge of weapons, told authorities that no live ammunition is ever kept on set. ![]() “The biggest thing is I don’t really see any real protocols, period,” veteran prop gun expert and film armorer Mike Tristano said. The Rust crew appears to have violated multiple basic firearm safety protocols, according to Hollywood veterans, including the directive that a performer is never supposed to aim a weapon at another person. Halls is not a member of the Directors Guild of America, Deadline reported. Dummy rounds are normally visually differentiated from live rounds via a small hole or indent, as well as making a signature rattling indicating there’s a BB rather than gunpowder inside the round, according to the L.A. He also couldn’t remember whether the gun’s barrel was spun to check if other chambers had a round in them. He said that he should have checked all of the gun’s chambers, but didn’t. Halls admitted that he didn’t fully check the gun before handing it to Baldwin, according to a search warrant. ![]() He’s responsible for what happens on the set.” In the 911 call, script supervisor Mamie Mitchell said in an apparent reference to assistant director Halls, “He’s supposed to check the guns. Crew shortages meant the production didn’t start on time the morning of the shooting. The camera department was only able to use one camera that day, which caused further delays. The crew had taken some of their personal equipment as well. Pickle also had a previous labor violation, according to the Hollywood Reporter, firing members of a 2018 film for trying to unionize and calling the police on them.įour replacement camera operators were brought on to the Rust set, including three who were non-union. When they weren’t packing up fast enough, line producer Gabrielle Pickle threatened to call the police on them. Hutchins had previously given up a day’s rental of a crane in order to add to the budget for lodging the camera crew, but with the issue still unresolved, she came to set the day of the shooting to find her crew packing up, according to the L.A. They allegedly hadn’t been paid and weren’t being housed near the set. The Rust production was behind schedule, according to Souza.Ī member of the Rust camera department, Reid Russell, told investigators that he had “much work to complete” because six members of Hutchins' crew had just quit the film that morning. However, blanks can still emit hot gases, as well as paper or plastic wadding, which can be lethal from short range, according to the Associated Press. It was thought to be loaded with blanks, which are gunpowder charges that produce a flash and a bang, but without a projectile coming out of the gun’s barrel. He yelled “cold gun” as he handed it to Baldwin, indicating it didn’t contain live ammunition. When it dries, start to cracks, and I must sand it and primer again with acrylic paint.Baldwin was handed the gun by assistant director Dave Halls, who reportedly didn’t know it was loaded with live rounds. Or maybe I don't know how to use it (the second may be). This is a technic that I discovered: primer XPS with acrylic epoxi paint: when it dries, you can glue it with cyanocrilate, or primer it again with poliurethane. Probably I must take another way in the future. The main problems is that a lot of "cool" products dissolve it, and it was a bad idea for coating. XPS is lightweight, but its easy to dent with your finger. Paint -> varnish -> mud and grime -> dry brush. Paint -> mud and grime -> dry brush -> varnish. ![]() What can I say about things that I need change? You can see more good pics at my website, and a lot of poor quality pics of the process in my facebook page. This was a difficult prop to me because it was the first time I worked with plastics ( XPS and HIPS), and I make a lot of mistakes searching the good path.Īnd here is it. This is my second commision that I do, but the first I post.
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