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The trailer for Alec Baldwin’s Western film, “Rust” has been released, during the movie’s production in New Mexico in 2021, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed by a prop gun that Baldwin was holding.

The trailer captures some of typical of Old West dramas, where cowboys ride horses across atmospheric landscapes, pioneering townspeople, Native Americans, and gunfights.

“Some things in this life you can’t get back, I reckon,” Baldwin says in the footage, wearing a cowboy hat and playing a gun-toting outlaw named Harland Rust. According to a synopsis below the trailer, the story is set in Kansas in the 1880s, when a 13-year-old boy named Lucas (played by Patrick Scott McDermott) accidentally kills a rancher. He’s sentenced to be hanged, but goes on the run with Rust, his long-estranged grandfather.

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer for the movie, was given an 18-month prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter after being found guilty in April.After a few months, Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter case was dismissed by the same New Mexico judge based on the fact that prosecutors did not provide evidence.

After suffering a shoulder injury during the 2021 incident, director Joel Souza returned to finish the film when production resumed in Montana. In the trailer credits, Halyna Hutchins is included with cinematographer Bianca Cline, who finished her work. Rust’s final version made its debut at the Camera Image Film Festival in Poland last November, which celebrates cinematography.

Earlier this month, Hulu premiered a different documentary, directed by Hutchins’ friend Rachel Mason, titled, “Last Take : Rust and the Story of Halyna“.  Falling Forward Films Lists “Rust” release date on their web site as May 2 of this year.

Here’s our interview with director Rachel Mason for “Last Take : Rust and the Story of Halyna.”