The husband of murdered Galina Hutchins has withdrawn the lawsuit against Baldwin: filming of “Rasta” will resume with the participation of the husband of the deceased

Alec Baldwin has reached an out-of-court settlement with relatives of cameraman Galina Hutchins, whom he accidentally shot while filming. with the BBC.

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The cameraman's family accused the Hollywood actor of negligence, but have now agreed to withdraw their lawsuit. Production on Rust will resume in January, with Hutchins' husband Matthew serving as executive producer on the film.

Hutchins, who was born and raised in Ukraine and became a cinematographer in the US, was killed in October 2021; she was 42 years old. Baldwin accidentally shot her in the chest with a prop pistol that turned out to be a live round. The director of the film, Joel Souza, was also wounded by a ricochet in the shoulder, he survived.

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The actor rehearsed the scene by whipping out a Colt .45 and pointing it toward the camera. He was sure that the revolver was loaded with blank cartridges, since the assistant director who handed him the weapon shouted the phrase “cold gun”, which means the weapon is safe.

After the tragedy, the production of the film was suspended indefinitely. Authorities in the state of New Mexico, where filming took place, conducted their investigation, which showed that the company working on the film, Rust Movie Productions LLC, was aware of the widespread non-compliance with safety rules on the set, but it ignored it.

In February 2022, Galina Hutchins' husband sued the company - and Alec Baldwin personally. The lawsuit stated that Hutchins' death could have been avoided if Baldwin and other film participants had not acted thoughtlessly and carelessly, but had followed safety regulations.

The terms of the current agreement reached between Galina's family and the cast members have not been disclosed.

As Hutchins' husband said, all parties accept that the operator's death was an accident.

In a statement released by film industry news website Deadline, Matthew Hutchins said he plans to serve as an executive producer on the film and will include all those who worked on the film before his wife's death.

Police investigation

According to Hutchins, he would like the end result to be a memory of Galina's latest project. The wife of the deceased added that he did not plan to continue the search for those responsible for her death.

In a statement, lawyer Alec Baldwin said the following: “During the entire time this difficult process lasted, the main thing for all parties remained the desire to do everything possible for Galina’s son. We are grateful to everyone who helped resolve this tragic and painful situation."

Baldwin himself, however, remains among the four defendants in the investigation of the New Mexico State Police, who may be charged with a criminal offense at the end of October.

Galina Hutchins was born and raised in Ukraine. She graduated from Kiev State University with a degree in international journalism, and then worked on the set of documentaries in the UK.

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In 2015, she received her cinematography education in the USA and has had a successful career as a camera operator. In 2019, American Cinematographer magazine named her one of the rising stars of American cinema. Among other things, she directed the superhero film “Max Fist” (“Archenemy”) and the horror film “Darlin.”

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

• On October 21, on the set of the film, Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin accidentally killed the cameraman and wounded the director. The Ukrainian woman was killed. Sources of claim that she could have filmed her own death.
• Court records show that weapons were readily available gunsmith and film assistant director.
• Sources claim that on the set was in complete chaos with weapons.
• The police are checking information on Alec's phone Baldwin.
• In November, the head of the lighting team on the set of the western "Rust" (Rust) Sergey Svetnoy filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles (California) because of the shooting on the set.
• Alec Baldwin gave an interview in December for the first time since the death of cameraman Galina Hutchins. The actor stated that he did not pull the trigger of the revolver.
• And the family of the murdered Rust cameraman Galina Hutchins on February 15 filed a wrongful death lawsuit against actor Alec Baldwin and other film producers, citing cost-cutting measures as the cause of the tragedy and blaming reckless behavior on Baldwin and others.
• FBI forensics on the murder of Galina Hutchins say the gun could not have fired on its own. Baldwin pulled the trigger though he denies it. Court laid the blame for the murder of Galina Hutchins andexclusively for Alec Baldwin.
• Read the stories of the worst tragedies and accidents that occurred directly on the set in our material.

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