The shooting occurred about six hours after the union camera crew left.īaldwin, 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, according to two knowledgeable people.
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“The entire cast and crew has been absolutely devastated by today’s tragedy, and we send our deepest condolences to Halyna’s family and loved ones,” the spokesperson for Rust Movie Productions said in a statement Thursday.
There were two misfires on the prop gun and one the previous week, the person said, adding “there was a serious lack of safety meetings on this set.”Ī representative for the production company did not immediately comment. “Corners were being cut - and they brought in nonunion people so they could continue to shooting,” the knowledgeable person said. She said if they didn’t leave, the producers would call security to remove them. > RELATED: Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, killed on film set remembered as giftedĪs 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.Ī member of the producer staff then ordered the union members to leave the set. 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. 6 and members of the production said they had been promised the production would pay for their hotel rooms in Santa Fe.īut after filming began, the crews were told they instead would be required to make the 50-mile drive from Albuquerque each day, rather than stay overnight in nearby Santa Fe. Labor trouble had been brewing for days on the dusty set at the Bonanza Creek Ranch near Santa Fe. Thursday and began gathering up their gear and personal belongings to leave, one knowledgeable crew member told the Los Angeles Times. The camera crew showed up for work as expected at 6:30 a.m. > RELATED: Warrant: Alec Baldwin didn’t know weapon contained live round that killed cinematographer The camera operators and their assistants were frustrated by the conditions surrounding the low-budget film, including complaints of long hours and pay, according to three people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to comment. He produced many programs for Channel 27 in Albuquerque.Hours before actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer on the New Mexico set of “Rust” with a prop gun, a half-dozen camera crew workers walked off the set to protest working conditions. He is a graduate of New Mexico State University.Įditor and cameraman Reinhard Vogel is an extraordinary guitar player and musicologist. Joe's spirit lives on at Born and raised in the land of Anasazi ruins, Joe specialized in literature of the 1920s and films of the 1960s. Prior to his death he toured the Southwest and Mexico in a 1977 VW bus along with Beatlick Pamela Hirst. Itinerant raconteur and poet Beatlick Joe Speer passed away on January 11, 2011. This video was shown in its entirety on local cable channel 27 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. But before that it was an abandoned building that was facing demolition.Ībout twenty years ago, I assembled a videographer named Joe Speer and along with his buddy Reinhard Vogel, we made a film based on reflections of my experience in High School back in Chicago. Old Albuquerque High School was converted to private lofts for urban city dwellers a few years ago.
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