“Rust” script did not predict gun fire, says Hollywood Reporter

A member of the team who worked on the film “Rust” last month he said in a lawsuit that at no time did the script predict the firing of a gun during a scene rehearsal with actor Alec Baldwin, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Baldwin accidentally killed a director of photography when the gun, loaded with lethal ammunition, was fired on the film set.

The suit was filed in the US city of Los Angeles on Wednesday by Mamie Mitchell, script supervisor for the low-budget Western that was being shot in New Mexico, and mentions Baldwin and the film’s producers.

Mitchell claims to have suffered both the intentional infliction of emotional disturbance and deliberate infliction of harm, the Hollywood Reporter reported on Wednesday, citing a copy of the court documents he obtained.

Mitchell and his lawyer, Gloria Allred, held a press conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

The action is the second to be filed after the shooting. Authorities in Santa Fe are still investigating and no criminal charges have been filed.

It said the script called for three camera shots of the scene—one of Baldwin’s eyes, another on a bloodstain, and a third on Baldwin’s torso “as he reached for the holster and removed the gun. There was nothing in the script about the gun being fired by defendant Baldwin or anyone else,” the lawsuit says.

Baldwin and the film’s producers could not immediately be reached for comment.

Director of photography Halyna Hutchins was killed on Oct. 21 and director Joel Souza was injured when a gun that Baldwin was told was safe fired an actual bullet, investigators said.