The first trailer for Alec Baldwin’s “Rust” — the western movie made notorious by the deadly on-set capturing of its cinematographer — was launched Wednesday.
The darkish film trailer exhibits Baldwin’s gunslinging character on the run together with his grandson, who has been sentenced to hold for the unintentional killing of a neighborhood rancher.
“Some things in this life you can’t get back,” says Baldwin’s character, in a single scene.
In actual life, Baldwin was pointing a gun towards cinematographer Halyna Hutchins throughout a rehearsal in New Mexico in 2021 when the weapon fired, killing her and wounding the movie’s director Joel Souza.
The Hollywood star was accused by prosecutors of violating gun security guidelines, however his involuntary manslaughter trial collapsed final 12 months over withheld proof.
Both Baldwin and Souza returned to complete the film, on one other set in Montana.
It will now be launched in restricted U.S. theaters on May 2 by tiny indie distributor Falling Forward Films.
Featuring a tombstone, a dangling and several other shootouts, the trailer is accompanied by the sound of a foreboding thunderstorm, intense music, and ominous dialogue.
There are frequent photographs of characters in silhouette or with their faces partly in shadow. Violence of all types — gunfights, beatings, brawls within the mud — is a transparent motif.
The trailer concludes with a standoff between gunmen in a small dusty room, eerily paying homage to the scene through which Hutchins was killed.
“Heaven ain’t waiting on either one of us,” says Baldwin, earlier than the boys draw weapons on one another.
The movie has already acquired its world premiere, at a Polish movie competition in November.
Introducing the movie, Souza mentioned he had been “on the fence” about finishing the film, however was satisfied to complete upon studying that Hutchins’s husband needed her ultimate work to be seen.
Hutchins, a former journalist from Ukraine who grew up on a Soviet army base, was thought-about one of many trade’s rising stars.
Baldwin didn’t attend the premiere, and it’s unclear what position he’ll now play in selling the movie’s launch.
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