Halyna Hutchins Shot With Prop Gun - Alec Baldwin indicted & Hannah Gutierrez-Reed charged, 2021 #8

[steeltowngirl]

Alec Baldwin stars in 'Rust' trailer after on-set shooting death

Alec Baldwin stars in the brand-new trailer for "Rust," which debuted more than three years after a high-profile on-set shooting death.

abcnews.go.com

 

[PrairieWind]

Alec Baldwin stars in 'Rust' trailer after on-set shooting death

Alec Baldwin stars in the brand-new trailer for "Rust," which debuted more than three years after a high-profile on-set shooting death.

abcnews.go.com

This link is to an ABC news story that has a date of March 26, 2025, but the content is really from last year. Not sure how that happened. It is very misleading.

I did see yesterday that the movie is being released in the US in May and trailers are coming out.

 

[al66pine]

Rust

This link is to an ABC news story that has a date of March 26, 2025, but the content is really from last year. Not sure how that happened. It is very misleading.

I did see yesterday that the movie is being released in the US in May and trailers are coming out.

@PrairieWind Thx for your post w link and for letting us know ---
the story is last year's Hollywood fodder being reheated in the internet microwave. ; )

All Cast and Crew page on imdb shows:
Cinematographers: Bianca Cline Halyna Hutchins
Producers: Alec Baldwin producer plus others including Matthew Hutchins executive producer.

Rust (2024) - Full cast & crew - IMDb

Rust (2024) - Cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

www.imdb.com

Official Trailer runs 1:19 sec.

▶️ Rust - Official Trailer

Watch Trailer | 1:19

www.imdb.com

Rust (2024) ⭐ 5.5 | Drama, Western

2h 19m | Not Rated

www.imdb.com

 

[PrairieWind]

It will be interesting to see if people turn out to see it or not. I love westerns and it looks like a good movie. So I don't know if I will watch it or not.

 

[Marantz4250b]

It will be interesting to see if people turn out to see it or not. I love westerns and it looks like a good movie. So I don't know if I will watch it or not.

I also like a good Western but I doubt I'll be watching it, tbh.

 

[steeltowngirl]

A critic’s review from Rust’s world premiere in Poland at the Camerimage International Film Festival.

https://www.vulture.com/article/rust-movie-review-compelling-tragic-as-you-think.html

 

[Smelly Squirrel]

"Rust" armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed released from prison 13 months after involuntary manslaughter conviction

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was paroled to Arizona and ordered to report there immediately.

www.cbsnews.com

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer who was working on the Western movie "Rust" when the film's cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, was killed in an on-set shooting in 2021, was released from prison Friday, 13 months after her involuntary manslaughter conviction, New Mexico officials said.

In March 2024, Gutierrez-Reed was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in connection with Hutchins' death, and sentenced to 18 months in prison the following month. At the time, she was acquitted of a second charge of evidence tampering.

The Parole Board of the State of New Mexico granted Gutierrez-Reed parole Friday, according to a parole certificate provided to CBS News.

That parole runs through May 23, 2026. Her certificate said she is required to follow the conditions set forth by the board, some of which include electric monitoring, following a curfew, and either getting a job or enrolling in school.

 

[Betty P]

A critic’s review from Rust’s world premiere in Poland at the Camerimage International Film Festival.

https://www.vulture.com/article/rust-movie-review-compelling-tragic-as-you-think.html

It must have been difficult to attend that premiere. I’m glad the crew and others from Halyna’s professional field had a chance to be together for it.

I watched the movie recently and found it good, if a bit long. The cinematography was very good. As the article above mentions, it’s not revealed which scenes were shot by Halyna’s, but they’re all good.

The film feels tense, not as much from the plot but from a frequent feeling that the actors just wanted to get through it. There were a lot of shooting scenes in the movie, but it was much more than a potboiler western. Alec Baldwin’s character is a bad guy who turns into a good one. I had the impression everyone in the movie was working hard to do their best.

 

[Cool Cats]

"Rust" armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed released from prison 13 months after involuntary manslaughter conviction

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was paroled to Arizona and ordered to report there immediately.

www.cbsnews.com

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer who was working on the Western movie "Rust" when the film's cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, was killed in an on-set shooting in 2021, was released from prison Friday, 13 months after her involuntary manslaughter conviction, New Mexico officials said.

In March 2024, Gutierrez-Reed was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in connection with Hutchins' death, and sentenced to 18 months in prison the following month. At the time, she was acquitted of a second charge of evidence tampering.

The Parole Board of the State of New Mexico granted Gutierrez-Reed parole Friday, according to a parole certificate provided to CBS News.

That parole runs through May 23, 2026. Her certificate said she is required to follow the conditions set forth by the board, some of which include electric monitoring, following a curfew, and either getting a job or enrolling in school.

She was put on violent offender status so she couldn't be released early was my understanding.

Why even bother if they don't care. Pathetic.

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[Smelly Squirrel]

She was put on violent offender status so she couldn't be released early was my understanding.

Why even bother if they don't care. Pathetic.

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The designation allows early release but limits how early.

2024 New Mexico Statutes :: Chapter 33 - Correctional Institutions :: Article 2 - State Correctional Facilities :: Section 33-2-34 - Eligibility for earned meritorious deductions.

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[Betty P]

She was put on violent offender status so she couldn't be released early was my understanding.

Why even bother if they don't care. Pathetic.

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Hopefully, she'll be forced to find a new career path. The damage to her reputation and the high cost of any movie company to employ her should be enough to prevent her putting others at risk.

 

[ch_13]

She was put on violent offender status so she couldn't be released early was my understanding.

Why even bother if they don't care. Pathetic.

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I don't believe this is true. The prosecution asked for it, but it wasn't part of the sentence handed down by the judge.

Hopefully, she'll be forced to find a new career path. The damage to her reputation and the high cost of any movie company to employ her should be enough to prevent her putting others at risk.

I very much doubt she'll ever be permitted to step foot onto a movie set again.

 

[Smelly Squirrel]

She was sentenced as a serious violent offender.

'Rust' armorer convicted in fatal on-set shooting death is released from prison

Hannah-Gutierrez Reed was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the 2021 death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

www.nbcnews.com

Because of state credit for time served, women in state prisons in New Mexico generally serve a little less than 60% of their sentences on average, according to the state's sentencing commission.

However, Gutierrez-Reed was required to serve at least 85% of her sentence, Roembach said. In New Mexico, those convicted of a "serious violent offense" have this requirement. Involuntary manslaughter is not considered a serious violent offense in all cases, but some, like the armorer's, have drawn that 85% threshold based on circumstances.

Elements that trimmed Gutierrez-Reed's time included four days credit each month for good behavior; 60 days credit for completing two phases of a residential addiction program; and 40 days of pre-sentence credit, the corrections spokesperson said.

 

[Marantz4250b]

Hopefully, she'll be forced to find a new career path. The damage to her reputation and the high cost of any movie company to employ her should be enough to prevent her putting others at risk.

She doesn't have a choice as she's prohibited from owning or handling firearms.

 

[ColyH]

Reed doesn't come across as a very bright person but at least she did her time unlike Baldwin who never faced any consequences.

 

[Marantz4250b]

Reed doesn't come across as a very bright person but at least she did her time unlike Baldwin who never faced any consequences.

I agree with this. She should never have been placed in the position she was.

This whole thing is like an air-crash in that they very rarely, if ever, happen due to one factor. They are always the result of several factors compounding and amplifying preceding ones. This is no different.

I never believed that Hannah Reed was grossly reckless on the set (although other stuff she did like smuggling guns into bars was just insanely stupid), she even did a podcast where she mentioned being concerned about safety and nervous about getting things wrong.

The issues as I see them were; she was too inexperienced to be lead armourer; she was doing more work than she was contracted to as she was also a prop assistant or something; she didn't have the authority, wherewithal or financial fallback to stand up to much older and more experienced members of the crew, producers and actors.

The errors were compounded by such things as the actors and producers not checking firearms properly when the armourer wasn't around, not attending safety briefings and doing stuff with guns that they they shouldn't have been doing.

Alec Baldwin should definitely have been held criminally responsible for this, imo, and I'm not just talking about vicarious liability due to being a producer.

The law should be clear that if you choose to use a firearm - especially in a professional setting - then you are responsible if someone gets shot due to your use of it. It really should be that simple. If you aren't prepared to undertake that responsibility then you have no business choosing to use a gun.

If you adhere to the regular rules of safe gun handling and someone still gets shot then you've done all you can do mitigate the risk and you shouldn't be held liable. Alec Baldwin did not do that, though, and should have been made to take the fall for it, imo.

Lets not forget the fact that he walked from that courtroom not because he was acquitted by a jury but because the prosecutor was bent and withheld evidence! And, imo, it wasn't even evidence that had any bearing on his culpability.

 

[ch_13]

The law should be clear that if you choose to use a firearm - especially in a professional setting - then you are responsible if someone gets shot due to your use of it. It really should be that simple. If you aren't prepared to undertake that responsibility then you have no business choosing to use a gun.

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Eh, I don't know. Movie sets are world unto themselves.

Forget that this case involves a famous actor who claimed to be very experienced with the use of firearms.

What if this was some 18-year-old background actor, with just one line in the movie. Someone who'd never even fired a weapon in their life before they came to the set? What if they received bad training and were not properly instructed in how to clear a weapon? Or, what if it wasn't a modern-day gun, but some WWI period firearm? How many people know how to properly handle antique guns? Or maybe they were set up and someone changed guns on them.

I think it's easy to come up with some blanket law, but often you need to consider circumstances. I remember when schools started having zero-tolerance policies on drugs. And then they started suspending students because they had a Tylenol in their pocket. A lot of stuff sounds good when you're trying to take a hard-line, but in the real world there are often extenuating circumstances.

To be clear, I'm not saying that an actor should never bear responsibility if they shoot someone. Just that these simple, one-line "it's just that simple" statements work better as slogans than as laws.

 

[Marantz4250b]

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Eh, I don't know. Movie sets are world unto themselves.

Forget that this case involves a famous actor who claimed to be very experienced with the use of firearms.

What if this was some 18-year-old background actor, with just one line in the movie. Someone who'd never even fired a weapon in their life before they came to the set? What if they received bad training and were not properly instructed in how to clear a weapon? Or, what if it wasn't a modern-day gun, but some WWI period firearm? How many people know how to properly handle antique guns? Or maybe they were set up and someone changed guns on them.

I think it's easy to come up with some blanket law, but often you need to consider circumstances. I remember when schools started having zero-tolerance policies on drugs. And then they started suspending students because they had a Tylenol in their pocket. A lot of stuff sounds good when you're trying to take a hard-line, but in the real world there are often extenuating circumstances.

To be clear, I'm not saying that an actor should never bear responsibility if they shoot someone. Just that these simple, one-line "it's just that simple" statements work better as slogans than as laws.

Oh, I certainly hear what you're saying and, yes, proper training is essential. If someone genuinely hasn't been trained correctly and adheres to what they've been taught in an honestly held belief that it's safe and something still goes wrong then they can't be blamed.

We have lots of blanket rules which people can't delegate away where potentially dangerous items are involved, though; if your company gives you a truck to drive which has bald tyres, broken lights, isn't insured and doesn't have the required safety inspections then you as the driver are automatically breaking the law. The company might be too but, ultimately, it's the drivers neck on the line if he gets stopped.

I don't see why the same should not apply to firearms in an industrial/commercial setting, tbh. Everyone has the choice not to handle firearms. Yes, it may mean that you don't get a particular gig but that's just life.

The bottom line, imo, must always be if you aren't prepared to accept the consequences of your actions then don't do the thing. Personal responsibility.

 

[Weki]

Wow can't believe it's been 13 months already! Well she did her time. I think her conviction and sentence were just. Sadly AB's outcome was also just based on Morrissey's madness! smh

 

[ColyH]

I may be wrong but wasn't the lawyer hired to prosecute Baldwin actually a defense attorney?