Resurrected ‘Rust’ Movie Aims For April Start; Alec Baldwin Criminal Case Stumbles For D.A. As Minitrial Looms
16.03.2023 - 22:43
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: No date has been set yet for Alec Baldwin’s criminal trial for the October 2021 fatal shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, but the resurrected movie is now looking at a late April production start in Montana. In fact, Rust 2.0 is currently seeking actors to play a boy who is hearing impaired, Deadline has learned.
The description of the supporting role, named Jacob Hollister, reads, “a smart, sweet little boy who knows nothing of the world other than what his older brother Lucas has created for him. Lucas is all Jacob has in the world.” Start of date for the “6-to-7 years old white boy “role is April 23.
That’s three days ahead of Rust‘s return to production which we here is April 20. The production is several roles, we hear. Rust producers didn’t provide return for comment.
With a previously announced spring start to Rust, Baldwin is back in his lead role as the title character in the indie western which is set to film at the Yellowstone Film Ranch Even with that, unanswered questions about insurance surround the revamped production as Baldwin and former Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed each face an 18-month sentence and various fines if found guilty on counts of involuntary manslaughter.
Still, if those Rust production dates hold, the $7 million budgeted flick will be filming when the two-week long preliminary hearing in Baldwin and Reed’s case begins on May 3 in front of New Mexico Judge Mary Marlow Sommer. A minitrial for all practical purposes, the hearing will see Santa Fe D.A. Mary Carmack-Altwies present the prosecution’s evidence and call witnesses in the matter. After responses from Reed’s attorneys and Baldwin’s NYC-based Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan team, Judge Sommer will
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