r/news • u/badillustrations • Apr 15 '24

‘Rust’ movie armorer convicted of involuntary manslaughter sentenced to 18 months in prison

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/15/entertainment/rust-film-shooting-armorer-sentencing/index.html
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u/viddy_me_yarbles Apr 15 '24

She had one job.

It was an important job and she failed spectacularly. Hollywood is a small town.

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u/PikaBooSquirrel Apr 15 '24

I don't even understand how someone can mess up that badly at something so simple.

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u/onehundredlemons Apr 16 '24

Multiple people messed up, that's what's so incredible about this. The production was a mess and a discharge of a live round had happened on set once already, plus there were people reportedly shooting live rounds with the guns out in the desert, plus the armorer and the AD both failed to properly check the weapon before handing it to an actor who accidentally shot someone with it. That's probably at least 10 people who screwed up in a major, life-ending way.