Rust makers face lawsuit on safety protocols from a crew member

A crew member for Rust filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the movie’s producers, Alec Baldwin and several other members of the crew who were tasked with handling guns on set, accusing them of failing to follow safety protocols that would have prevented the fatal shooting of the film’s cinematographer last month.

Serge Svetnoy, the gaffer, or chief lighting technician, on the film, was standing about six or seven feet away from Baldwin on the set in New Mexico as the crew prepared for a scene in which Baldwin’s character drew a .45 Colt revolver from his shoulder holster and pointed it in the “general direction of the camera”, according to the lawsuit.

New York Times News Service