Alec Baldwin in Rust: The tragically famous western trailer

It was during the shooting that the actor accidentally killed the director of photography Halyna Hutchins.

Rust will come out, against and against everything. The Western featuring Alec Baldwin offers his first trailer and necessarily, we think of HALYNA HUTCHINS. The shooting, in October 2021, had been marked by a tragedy when the actor accidentally killed the director of photography and injured the director, Joel Souzawith a weapon used on the set, which should have been loaded white.

The tragic death of Hutchins on the set in October 2021 led to the indictment of Baldwin for manslaughter, but the case was abandoned last July due to a lack of evidence from the accusation. On the other hand, the Armorière Hannah Gutierrez Reed is serving a sentence of 18 months in prison after it was established that a real ball had been charged in the weapon of Baldwin, instead of a white ball.

Rust had been presented for the first time at the Camerimage festival in Poland in November 2024, in the presence of director Joel Souza and Bianca Cline, who resumed the management of photography after the death of Hutchins. Alec Baldwinon the other hand, had not been invited to the event.

If it was finished, the film will not be really distributed in theaters in the USA, and will be available in VOD on May 2. No date in France announced.

Pitch: “Located in the Kansas of the 1880s, Lucas McCalister (Patrick Scott McDermott) is an orphan who accidentally kills a ranker and is condemned to be hanged. In a reversal of the situation, his distant grandfather, the famous outlaw Harland Rust, frees him from prison and fled with him towards Mexico. While they are going through a wild and ruthless territory, the flight duo must escape Marshal Wood Helm (Josh Hopkins) and a ruthless premium hunter nicknamed Preacher (Travis Fimmel). “