Filmmaking Doc ‘Last Take: Rust & the Story of Halyna’ Official Trailer

“What really happened on that set?” Hulu has revealed an official trailer for the documentary Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna, set for a streaming debut in March. This is really a true crime doc made for Hulu, but it’s more about filmmaking, always going back to the same question: How could this happen? In 2021, on the set of the movie Rust, a prop gun held by actor Alec Baldwin fired a live bullet, wounding the film’s director and killing its cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins. Within hours, the catastrophic accident was enveloped by a frenzy of media attention. For months, then years, as lawsuits flew and criminal trials unfolded, the spectacle around the case then overshadowed a private, personal tragedy. Rigorously reported, emotionally raw, and deeply personal, this new documentary seeks to redeem the core of the story that the media exploited — that of a talented cinematographer whose life story was minimized, yet in death gave her colleagues an unexpected opportunity to heal from unimaginable loss by completing the film that mattered deeply to her. This looks like an unsettling watch, digging into too many problems that lead to this tragedy. // Continue Reading ›