Rust Prosecutors Look Into Whether Alec Baldwin Undermined Set Safety

THR, Esq A judge ruled on Tuesday that Rust Movie Productions must produce documents detailing the actor’s financial stake in the movie, which prosecutors say could’ve motivated him to deny additional firearm training requested by the film’s armorer. Alec Baldwin Getty Images Logo text The production entity for Rust must turn over records that could indicate whether Alec Baldwin shirked industry-wide norms on set safety to shoot the movie on a shoestring budget, a judge has ruled on Tuesday. In what could be a prelude to the refiling of charges against the movie’s actor and producer, prosecutors are seeking documents between Rust Movie Productions and Alec Baldwin, as well as his production company El Dorado Pictures. They’re looking into the possibility that Baldwin stood to profit if he cut corners on set safety related to the use of guns. The records could help Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and evidence tampering in the fatal shooting of the movie’s cinematographer when a gun Baldwin was holding discharged. She’s argued that she was stopped from adequately performing her job by the movie’s producers, who she claims denied requests for additional firearm training for financial reasons. Jason Bowles, Gutierrez-Reed’s
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