Where does it state that Baldwin hired her ?, this keeps getting repeated...there are 6 producers on the film.
He's the head mogul.
It was his movie, his project.
That's what happens when nobody wants you in their films anymore.
You scrape together enough money to make your own low budget film... and star in it.
While I agree, with all due respect that doesn't mean he hired her. Even if he did, he might have civil risk but criminal will be another matter. The film was obviously supported by a movie studio, they will be at risk also.
"Among the seven production entities listed as backing “Rust” was Streamline Global, a company founded in 2017 to use films produced with production tax incentives as vehicles to create tax breaks for wealthy investors. Streamline Global co-founders Emily Hunter Salveson and Ryan Donnell Smith serve as executive producer and producer, respectively, on “Rust.” Industry sources cite inherent problems that can occur when goals and incentives among producers are not aligned.
“Rust” had seven production entities listed as backing the film: Alec Baldwin’s El Dorado Pictures, Thomasville Pictures, Cavalry Media, Brittany House Pictures, Short Porch Pictures and financiers Bondit Media Capital and Streamline Global."
You can bet there will be lawsuits.
The lawyers will first look at the liability limits of the insurance policy issued for the filming.
Next they look at contractors. Because they can sue them individually outside the liability of the insurance policy. Who the armorer was actually working for, was she a business contracted? Same with who supplied the guns, blanks, and ammo.
They'll be looking at the production company, and who owned it.
They may even look at the landowner.
I don't think I'd hold my breath for criminal convictions. Maybe, but probably not.
Remember the actor Vic Morrow and the two child actors who were killed when a movie helicopter crashed and cut them to pieces with the props?
There was criminal cases filed, but no convictions...
In 1982, Morrow was cast in a feature role in Twilight Zone: The Movie, in a segment directed by John Landis. Morrow was playing the role of Bill Connor, a racist who is taken back in time and placed in various situations where he would be a persecuted victim: as a Jewish man in Vichy France, a black man about to be lynched by the Ku Klux Klan, and a Vietnamese man about to be killed by U.S. soldiers.
In the early morning hours of July 23, 1982, Morrow and two child actors, seven-year-old Myca Dinh Le and six-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen, were filming on location in California, in an area that was known as Indian Dunes, near Santa Clarita. They were performing in a scene for the Vietnam sequence, in which their characters attempt to escape out of a deserted Vietnamese village from a pursuing U.S. Army helicopter.[2] The helicopter was hovering at approximately 24 feet (7.3 m) above them when the heat from special effect pyrotechnic explosions reportedly delaminated the rotor blades[14] and caused the helicopter to plummet and crash on top of them, killing all three instantly. Morrow and Le were decapitated and mutilated by the helicopter rotor blades, while Chen was crushed by a helicopter skid.[15]
Landis and four other defendants, including the helicopter pilot Dorsey Wingo, were ultimately acquitted of involuntary manslaughter after a nearly nine-month trial. The parents of Le and Chen sued and settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. Both of Morrow's daughters also sued and settled for an undisclosed amount.
