Alec Baldwin & Other ‘Rust’ Producers Want Suit Over Fatal Film Set Shooting To Be Tossed Out

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Over two months after the script supervisor on Rust filed a jury seeking lawsuit against Alec Baldwin and the other producers for the actor’s fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchinson on the indie Western’s New Mexico set, the defendants want a California judge to dismiss the action.“Nothing about Plaintiff’s allegations suggest that any of Defendants, including Mr.

Baldwin, intended the Prop Gun to be loaded with live ammunition,” responded Baldwin, Rust Movie Productions, LLC,, El Dorado Pictures,Inc., Ryan Donnell Smith, Langley Allen Cheney, Thomasville Pictures, LLC, Anjul Nigam, Matthew DelPiano, and Cavalry Media, Inc., who were “erroneously sued as Calvary Media, Inc.” says the filing to Mamie Mitchell’s November 17, 2021 lawsuit.”Moreover, nothing about Plaintiff’s allegations suggests any of the Defendants knew the Prop Gun contained live ammunition,” the defendants’ memorandum accompanying their demurrer Monday (read it here).“The absence of such allegations of course makes sense because the Incident is apparently unprecedented in the filmmaking industry,” the document adds, apparently overlooking past film set deaths like Brandon Lee shooting death on 1994’s The Crow. “Because all three of Plaintiff’s causes of action, are based on allegations of negligence that resulted in a workplace accident, they should be dismissed because her exclusive remedy is New Mexico’s Workers’ Compensation Act, not a civil action filed in California State Court,” the filing adds.As the Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office continue their probe of what when terribly wrong on the Rust set on October 21 last year, Baldwin and his fellow producers’ Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP lawyers are requesting a February 24 hearing before