Rust script supervisor Mamie Mitchell, who originally called 911 upon an Alec Baldwin on-set shooting that took the life of the indie film’s director of photography, is now suing the star actor and other producers.
Represented by Gloria Allred, Mitchell alleges being injured from the shooting and is claiming assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and deliberate infliction of harm.
Perhaps most notably, Mitchell’s new complaint filed in L.A. Superior Court says the script didn’t call for any gun to be discharged.
“It was discussed that there would be [three] tight camera shots when filming resumed [after a lunch break],” states her complaint. “One camera shot would be focused on DEFENDANT BALDWIN’s eyes, one would be focused on a bloodstain on DEFENDANT BALDWIN’s shoulder, and the third would focus on DEFENDANT BALDWIN’s torso as he reached his hand down to the holster and removed the gun. There was nothing in the script about the gun being discharged by DEFENDANT BALDWIN or by any other person.”
The complaint adds that against basic safety protocols, at no time was she advised that a gun would be discharged, that there was limited plexiglass in the church setting, and that crew members weren’t told to look on monitors outside of the church so as not to be in close proximity to the action.
She blames Baldwin for not checking whether the gun was loaded, and after the shot was fired, she says she heard a loud ringing in her ears.
Her suit further alleges that cost-cutting measures including the lack of an experienced armorer intentionally endangered the lives of crew members. The producers, she says, “intended to cut through what was considered derisively as red tape common in Hollywood-based productions by running some of Rust‘s filmmaking apparatus out of Georgia and New Mexico.”
Hannah Gutierrez Reed is the Rust armorer and she is a co-defendant along with more than a dozen individuals and a half dozen production companies including El Dorado Pictures, Thomasville Pictures,Short Porch Pictures, Brittany House Pictures, 3rd Shift Media, and Streamline Global.
More to come.
Source: HollyWood
