Baldwin shoots on set, assistant director had already been fired for gun accident

The assistant director of the film ‘Rust’, who handed over the prop gun Alec Baldwin shot and killed the director of photography, had already been fired from a film production for a similar episode. A member of the film crew he worked on, the film’s production company at CNN revealed, was slightly injured in a gun accident. In particular, according to reports to CNN from Rocket Soul Studios, Dave Halls was assistant director on the movie “Freedom’s Path” in 2019, when the explosion produced by an “unexpectedly discharged” gun on the set caused a jump back. to a sound engineer, forcing him to seek medical attention and causing a temporary stop in production. Because of that incident, Halls was removed from the set and fired, the company said, explaining that filming didn’t resume “until Dave was out.”