The chief lighting officer for the film “Rust,” on the set of which the cinematographer was shot and killed when the prop gun failed, believes the producers tried to “save money” by hiring fewer people than necessary.
The lighting chief of the film “Rust”, Serge Svetnoy, has presented the first demand against the American actor and producer, Alec Baldwin, and other members of that film’s production following the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during filming.
At a press conference in Los Angeles, Svetnoy, who was also injured by the bullet that killed Hutchins, has assured that he saw “first-hand that various weapons were left unattended, on the ground and unsupervised “throughout the filming at Bonanza Creek Ranch, in Santa Fe (New Mexico, USA).
For these conditions on set and the subsequent fatal accident, Svetnoy filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court for negligence against the film’s producers, including Baldwin, as well as against the assistant director and the person in charge of arms control.
According to the lawsuit, gun control officer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed “negligently allowed” a Colt .45 caliber revolver with at least one live bullet to be turned over to Deputy Director David Halls, who also failed to inspect the gun properly and subsequently gave it to Baldwin.
At the press conference, Svetnoy said that he is “convinced” that the producers are largely to blame for allegedly trying “save money hiring insufficient numbers of workers to safely handle props and firearms properly on the set of ‘Rust’. “
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