The first trailer for Rust, the independent western film starring and co-produced by Alec Baldwin, has been released. The film was marked by tragedy in 2021, when cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was accidentally killed by a gunshot fired by Baldwin on set. In the trailer, set in 1880s Kansas, Baldwin stars as Harland Rust, an outlaw who helps his 13-year-old nephew Lucas escape after the boy kills a rancher. Production on the film resumed after the incident, with director Joel Souza, injured in the same episode in the shoulder, completing filming in Montana. Meanwhile, the film’s gunsmith Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was sentenced to 18 months in prison for manslaughter, while the case against Baldwin was dismissed for lack of evidence. Rust premiered in Poland last November at the Cameraimage Film Festival and will make its official debut on May 2.
The trailer features elements typical of Old West dramas: cowboys riding along atmospheric landscapes, pioneers, Native Americans and many gunfights. “Some things in this life you can’t get back,” Baldwin says in the clip, wearing a cowboy hat and playing gun-toting outlaw Harland Rust. The line from one of the crucial scenes in the film, might also make one think about the incident that happened in reality.
