Trailer for Infamous Western ‘Rust’ – The Film Where the DP Was Killed
by Alex Billington
March 26, 2025
Source: YouTube
“Some things in this life you can’t get back…” Falling Forward Films & Ascending Media Group revealed the first trailer for the western action thriller Rust, directed by Joel Souza. Unfortunately this is the film where the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed while on set from a prop gun loaded with a live round. After the incident, they decided to come together and finish filming anyway, and now it’s ready to be released. In Rust, a boy left to fend for himself and his younger brother following their parents’ deaths in 1880s Kansas, ends up on the run with his long-estranged grandfather after he is sentenced to hang for the accidental killing of a local rancher. Featuring Alec Baldwin, Frances Fisher, Josh Hopkins, Travis Fimmel, Patrick Scott McDermott, Devon Werkheiser, Rhys Coiro, Xander Berkeley, and Jake Busey. During filming in 2021, Baldwin’s gun discharged and struck Hutchins and Souza, killing Hutchins. A few years later filming resumed and the finished film premiered at the Camerimage Film Festival last year (the fest focuses on cinematography so it was a premiere in honor of Hutchins). This whole tragic incident still bothers & saddens me so I must say I have no interest in ever watching this. It should’ve been canned.
Here’s the first teaser trailer (+ poster) for Joel Souza’s western film Rust, direct from YouTube:
In Kansas in the 1880s, recently orphaned Lucas McCalister (Patrick Scott McDermott) accidentally kills a rancher and is sentenced to hang. In a twist of fate, his estranged grandfather, notorious outlaw Harland Rust (Oscar nominee Alec Baldwin), breaks him out of jail and takes him on the run toward Mexico. As they flee across the unforgiving wilderness, the fugitive pair must outrun the determined U.S. Marshal Wood Helm (Josh Hopkins) & a ruthless bounty hunter called “Preacher” (Travis Fimmel). Rust is written and directed by filmmaker Joel Souza, director of the films Hanna’s Gold, Ghost Squad, Break Night, and Crown Vic previously. From a story written by Joel Souza and Alec Baldwin. Produced by Alec Baldwin, Matt DelPiano, Grant Hill, Nathan Klingher, Anjul Nigam, Ryan Donnell Smith, & Ryan Winterstern. After cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed while filming, the film was finished with Bianca Cline as DP. This initially premiered at the 2024 Camerimage Film Festival in Poland last year. Falling Forward Films will debut Souza’s Rust in select US theaters + on VOD starting on May 2nd, 2025 coming soon. Anyone?
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