Legally speaking, does this guy have a case??
Would it legally be the responsibility of the production company to make sure everything they do in making the movie is legal, including all stunts, all filming that was done, make sure all wages are paid to everyone, make sure all permits were in place, including permits for the use of stunt weapons???
This sounds crazy to me, that this one guy is being hung out to dry, because somebody in the production company didn’t get the proper permit for the use of the weapon in the movie. I can’t believe that it’s up to individual actors to make sure that all legal requirements of filming have been met, before they act in a movie.
Why isn’t the whole crew being busted as complicit in the actor’s “crime”? There’d be a better technical case for this than for the travesty that went down with the police (and maybe some bikers) in Waco resulting in a dragnet on murder charges of essentially all the bikers there, hundreds and hundreds.
Reading the article seems to show that they weren’t very considerate of the neighbors, who may not have been advised well enough and who panicked and called the police.
Still even what NJ lawmakers are asking for, prosecutorial discretion, is an admission of the kind of bind that their draconian approach has thrown us into.
In any sane place this might have resulted in the movie crew getting slapped on the wrist for disturbing the peace, and that would be it. But not in the Garden Scapegoat State.