“Rust,” as the whole world knows, is a movie that was the seat of a horrific on-set tragedy. During the shooting of a scene at the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Alec Baldwin, who is the film’s star and one of its producers, discharged a gun that was being used as a prop and that somehow contained live rounds. (After all the recriminations and indictments and lawyers and trials and global media scrutiny, it has never been remotely determined how those rounds found their way onto the set or into the chamber of that gun.) The weapon went off, killing the film’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, and
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