A new documentary planned for Hulu will take a closer look at the tragic death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust in 2021. Directed and produced by Rachel Mason, Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna promises to “take viewers inside that tragic day and its aftermath, told first-hand by many of […]A new documentary planned for Hulu will take a closer look at the tragic death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust in 2021. Directed and produced by Rachel Mason, Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna promises to “take viewers inside that tragic day and its aftermath, told first-hand by many of
A new documentary planned for Hulu will take a closer look at the tragic death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust in 2021.
Directed and produced by Rachel Mason, Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna promises to “take viewers inside that tragic day and its aftermath, told first-hand by many of the people who lived it.” It is set to premiere March 11.
“Halyna was dear to me for many reasons,” said Mason in a statement. “Not only was she a friend, she was a collaborator. While she was alive, I could never have imagined making a film about her. My hope was to make films with her, and to support her in all the many films that she was sure to make. In the media frenzy which followed her death, it felt as if Halyna was erased, her loss eclipsed by the surrounding controversies. Our film aims to keep her at the center, while offering a portrait of the experience of those with whom she spent her final 12 days, which hopefully, through their efforts, offers the world a very much unfinished portrait of Halyna.”
On October 21, 2021, a prop gun held by actor Alec Baldwin fired a live bullet on the Rust set that killed Hutchins and wounded the film’s director, Joel Souza. Hulu says Last Take “weaves together the accounts of those who were on the set of Rust that day and of those, like Mason, who not only lost a cherished friend and colleague but who are still navigating the trauma of the aftermath.”
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Baldwin, who always insisted the gun discharged on its own, was initially charged with involuntary manslaughter, as was Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed. While Gutierrez-Reed was convicted, the case against Baldwin was eventually dropped due to incompetence by the local district attorney’s office in New Mexico. Though the case was refiled in early 2024, the office of New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez decided in December not to pursue the appeal of behalf of the prosecution.
Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna is a Hulu Original produced by Julee Metz, Kate Barry, Jon Bardin, and Will Cohen for Story Syndicate, and Jessica Grimshaw, Nick Shumaker, and Jennifer Sears for Anonymous Content. Executive Producers include Story Syndicate’s Dan Cogan, Liz Garbus, and Tommy Coriale; Concordia Studio’s Lizzie Fox and Casey Meurer; Anonymous Content’s David Levine; and Matthew Hutchins.
The documentary was directed by and produced by Rachel Mason in association with FutureClown Productions.