Let this tragedy change the industry. Otherwise, what are we doing? As we reported last week, there was a tragic shooting death on the set of the movie Rust. The ramifications of this are both professional and personal. There will be lawsuits to come and hopefully industry-wide change. But right now, details are still coming in. And people are taking matters into their own hands. A petition to ban real guns on film on change.org now has 25,000 signatures and counting. The project was launched by filmmaker Bandar Albuliwi, and the page states, “We need to make sure that this avoidable tragedy never happens again. There is no excuse for something like this to happen in the 21st century. Real guns are no longer needed on film production sets. This isn’t the early 90’s, when Brandon Lee was killed in the same manner. Change needs to happen before additional talented lives are lost. Please sign this petition and demand for Alec Baldwin to use his power and influence in the Hollywood film industry to make change and ban real guns on film sets.” Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 25 October, 2021