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First trailer for Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' after on-set death

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First trailer for Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' after on-set death
In this file photo taken on April 01, 2019, US actor Alec Baldwin attends the premiere of "The Public" at New York Public Library in New York City. Baldwin was the focus on October 22, 2021, of investigations into a shocking and deadly on-set tragedy, after the actor fired a prop gun that killed a cinematographer and wounded the director of a Western he was shooting in New Mexico. Halyna Hutchins and Joel Souza "were shot when a prop firearm was discharged by Alec Baldwin," the sheriff in Santa Fe said in a statement. Hutchins, 42, was transported to hospital by helicopter but died of her wounds, while Souza, 48, was taken by ambulance and was receiving treatment.
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LOS ANGELES, United States — The first trailer for Alec Baldwin's "Rust" — the Western film made infamous by the fatal on-set shooting of its cinematographer — was released Wednesday.

The dark movie trailer shows Baldwin's gunslinging character on the run with his grandson, who has been sentenced to hang for the accidental killing of a local rancher.

"Some things in this life you can't get back," says Baldwin's character, in one scene.

In real life, Baldwin was pointing a gun toward cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal in New Mexico in 2021 when the weapon fired, killing her and wounding the film's director Joel Souza.

The Hollywood star was accused by prosecutors of violating gun safety rules, but his involuntary manslaughter trial collapsed last year over withheld evidence.

Both Baldwin and Souza returned to finish the movie, on another set in Montana. It will now be released in limited US theaters on May 2 by tiny indie distributor Falling Forward Films.

Featuring a tombstone, a hanging, and several shootouts, the trailer is accompanied by the sound of a foreboding thunderstorm, intense music, and ominous dialogue.

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There are frequent shots of characters in silhouette or with their faces partly in shadow. Violence of all kinds — gunfights, beatings, brawls in the mud — is a clear motif.

The trailer concludes with a standoff between gunmen in a small dusty room, eerily reminiscent of the scene in which Hutchins was killed.

"Heaven ain't waiting on either one of us," says Baldwin, before the men draw guns on each other.

The film has already received its world premiere, at a Polish film festival in November.

Introducing the film, Souza said he had been "on the fence" about completing the movie, but was convinced to finish upon learning that Hutchins's husband wanted her final work to be seen.

Hutchins, a former journalist from Ukraine who grew up on a Soviet military base, was considered one of the industry's rising stars.

Baldwin did not attend the premiere, and it is unclear what role he will now play in promoting the film's release.

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