This was a small budget picture. Baldwin was the guy to make those decisions.
-Mr. Svetnoy said in the lawsuit that the movie’s producers had “declined requests for weapons training days, failed to allow proper time to prepare for gunfire, failed to send out safety bulletins with call sheets, spread staff too thin, failed to ensure that industry safety standards were strictly observed when preparing and filming with firearms and engaged in other cost-cutting moves.”
-Independent film productions that cost more than a few million dollars often carry two forms of insurance in case something goes wrong. Forgoing full coverage, Hollywood veterans say, is less a sign of optimism than corner cutting.
-Camera crew walked off job to protest safety concerns on Alec Baldwin movie. Seven camera crew members working on the film “Rust” walked off the set to protest a myriad of issues ---------several hours before---------actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot and killed a cinematographer
-Baldwin had the armorer pulling double duty as a prop assistant.
Do you see a pattern here?