My question is - who was more wreckless in their respective "accidents": Alec Baldwin or Ted Kennedy?
He won’t get in trouble.
Some responsibility as the shooter......Perhaps more responsibility as the Producer.
Anytime you handle a gun you are responsible for whatever happens.
Alec Baldwin called for murdering Henry Hyde and his family during Clinton impeachment.
If you show a gun in Act 1, it has to go off in Act 3.
We were told he was rehearsing a scene and yet the two people shot weren’t actors.
Kennedy, absolutely.
(or is that “Absolut”ly?...)
The county this all occurred in voted for Biden 77% to 22%.
He walks.
One thing I found strange is he shot the director and the director of cinematography. The director should be the top person, next to Baldwin the producer. The woman killed was a manager and might not actually been behind the camera when shot.
Also, if 2 people were hit, it is likely there was more than 1 live bullet fired. It seems likely to hit both of them, either he was aiming at them or he fired several live bullet more at random.
As always, Mr Branca is my go-to source for these types of stories
No better information can be found anywhere
There, fixed it.
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There are reports that the prop manager was a new hire.
What happened with the previous one? A whistleblower?
COVID quarantine/testing issues? Vaccination issues?
Who was responsible for hiring and training the replacement?
of course, it will all be about Baldwin and not the woman that died.
My prediction is that Alec Baldwin will not face criminal charges (though someone will), but his superstar status as a movie and TV actor was destroyed in a split second.
The movie ‘Rust’ will almost certainly be shelved. It is a low-budget (by Hollywood standards) $6M independent feature. It was poorly run and Baldwin is one of the producers. They had crew members commuting from a hotel 50 miles away while working 12+ hour days. Then they swapped union crew members for non-union during the production. And most importantly, there had already been other gun accidents on the set prior to this and no safety meetings were called.
There were complaints made on the set prior to this over improper handling of guns. I can relate as I made a similar complaint when I attended film school because one of my fellow students brought a gun to class to use as a prop in a student film which the class was filming. I objected that no one on the set was properly trained for this and there could be a further danger if campus police had mistaken the performance for a real threat. I am pro-gun, but also pro-gun safety.
Baldwin will disappear from the public eye for a long while and attempt to come back, but he will never have the star status he once enjoyed. In my opinion, Baldwin would be partly responsible even he was not the one pulling the trigger. He had plenty of money, and when this production took a dangerous turn with regards to cast and crew safety, he should have either shut production down or found additional money to make sure it could be completed safely.
I’ll also add that a lot of these low budget productions have been happening because of the burden of dealing with COVID19. The industry nearly shut down for over a year, and filmmakers are looking for ways to get movies made. I’m even wondering out loud the extent to which COVID safety measures might have become a distraction from the much more serious gun-safety procedures that were obviously not followed.
I’m sort of a common law nerd, and I don’t think “I didn’t know the gun was loaded” has ever worked as a defense to manslaughter.
This stupid mofo simply got karma served.....
How many recall or remember the Idiot for tweeting in 2017, “how it must feel to wrongfully kill someone.”
I have still not heard an explanation of just how this occurred, was he horsing around, was he’s threatening people, etc. It doesn’t sound like this occurred during a movie filming session.