Posted on 10/22/2021 1:54:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Labor trouble had been brewing for days on the dusty set at the Bonanza Creek Ranch near Santa Fe.
The cinematographer who was accidentally killed, Halyna Hutchins, had been advocating for safer conditions for her team, said one crew member who was on the set.
As the camera crew — members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees — spent about an hour assembling their gear at the Bonanza Creek Ranch, several nonunion crew members showed up to replace them, the knowledgeable person said.
A member of the producer staff then ordered the union members to leave the set. She said if they didn’t leave, the producers would call security to remove them.
“Corners were being cut — and they brought in nonunion people so they could continue shooting,” the knowledgeable person said.
There were two misfires on the prop gun on Saturday and one the previous week, the person said, adding “there was a serious lack of safety meetings on this set.”
The shooting occurred about six hours after the union camera crew left.
Baldwin, the film’s star who also served as a producer on the film, was apparently rehearsing a scene outside the church of the Bonzana Creek Ranch set...
The scene involved a gun fight that began in the church, and then Baldwin’s character was supposed to back out of the church, according to production notes obtained by The Times. It was the 12th day of a 21-day shoot.
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This is a plot straight out of an episode of Matlock.
Another prime example of a perp being well known to the police for their past violent and extreme behavior, but being given a pass because of who they are, and it being previously determined that he was a non-threat to himself and others.
Did the union members force him (Baldwin) to point the gun at the torso of his victim? Asking for a friend
Yes, I seem to remember one from “Murder She Wrote.”
And who's going to want to work with him after this?
Yep.
Does NM have CCW license requirements?
Does he have one for NM?
Lock him up.
Do you think Alec would like to hear a good Dick Cheney joke?
Bruce Lee died from cerebal endema. You might mean Brandon Lee.
I don’t like Alec Baldwin one bit but this was not murder.
The gun prop people are responsible for preparing the firearms.
Actors do not load their movie weapons.
This was NOT Alec Baldwin’s personal firearm.
There was obviously a live round in the gun. It penetrated the woman killed and also entered the body of the director behind her.
Someone was responsible for a live round being loaded and it was not Alec Baldwin.
Libtards are constantly finding new ways to kill people 🤪
Lock up the old fat turd bag before he kills again.
“And what did the “producer” do about it?”
He shot the shooter.
But who shot the sheriff?
You don’t check your gun before you shoot?
“I wonder how it must feel to wrongfully kill someone...”
Well, Alec, now you know.
I’m sure he told a few.
I’m not trying to nitpick, but there are “prop guns.” They’re non firing replicas, often cast in rubber in molds made from real firearms. Fake weapons carried by background extras in war movies are prime examples. To your point, any firing weapon is the real deal, just loaded with blanks.
Bump!
Ban Hollywood.
Mocked him without pity.
Nope.
You have a firearm in your hand and pull the trigger.
You have full responsibility for that firearm.
Not only that, you just shot a set worker.
Was that in the script?
Show the film.
No film they say?? Murder.
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