
Hollywood has been mourning the death of cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins and the injury of director Joel Souza as a result of Alec Baldwin’s accidental discharge of a prop gun on the set of the Western film Rust. While rare, the tragedy reminded the world of other people who have lost their lives due to prop guns, such as actor Brandon Lee who was killed on the set of The Crow in March 1993. Now, everyone inside and outside of the movie industry wants to know what went wrong and who was responsible.
But, that’s only half of what should be the focus. We need to find out how this could happen, and how to stop it from ever happening again.