Director of photography Halyna Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza was wounded on the set of the movie Rust being filmed in New Mexico in an accident involving a gun loaded with blanks fired by Alec Baldwin.
Are blanks still necessary? Bruce Willis suffered hearing loss from firing blanks in a closed space in a Die Hard movie; they killed Brandon Lee and Jon-Erik Hexum.
I don't remember who the director was---maybe Al Adamson---who loaded a rifle with a blank cartridge and handed it to an actor who immediately aimed it at him. The director dived for cover. The actor was disappointed. "I wanted to shoot you!" He didn't know that, at that distance, the blank would have killed him.
I know people have complained about digitally added blood spatter in movies, but are muzzle flashes no good, either? No one has been killed in a blood spatter accident.
The movie is a western called Rust starring Alec Baldwin, with teen actor Brady Noon.
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