Due to a terrible accident on the set, “Rust – Legend of the West” was notorious before the film was completely in the box. Now the western has been completed and comes into the cinemas with us. Here is the trailer:
In October 2021 we had to tell you about itthat it is during filming to that of his star Alec Baldwin (“Hunting for Red October”) Western “Rust – Legend of the West” had come to a fatal accident. A revolver frequency was accidentally not loaded with space cartridges, but with sharp ammunition. In the course of the recordings, Baldwin then fired the weapon as planned and shot the chief camera frame without intention Halyna Hutchins (“Archenemy”) and also injured director Joel Souza (“In the network of violence”).
After the immediate shooting stop, police investigations and various legal steps were followed by private people, who have now been all withdrawn. After Hutchins had made an agreement with the production company, after 18 months a break – in April 2023 the film work with Baldwin and Souza continued behind the camera to complete the work.
“”Rust – Legend of the West“Starting nationwide on May 1, 2025 in German cinemas.
Without the tragic incident on the set and the headlines generated for months, “Rust” might not have made it on large screens in Germany. Which would apparently have been a shame. Because As reported by usAfter his world premiere at the Camerimage Festival in Toruń Poland, there was a stately number of reviews and reviews that were positive with an overwhelming majority. The camera work and the epic landscape pictures in particular were almost universally praised.
Despite the prehistory, you should perhaps be openly approached “Rust – Legend of the West” and could be pleasantly surprised. In addition to Alec Baldwin in the title role, “Vikings” star Travis Fimmel, Josh Hopkins (“Quantico”) and Frances Fisher From “Titanic” in the western.
This is the story of “Rust”
In the borderland between the USA and Mexico, Harland is Rust (Alec Baldwin) ready to risk everything to his grandson Lucas (Patrick Scott McDermott) to save him from the gallows expected in a few days. The 13-year-old is to be tied up because he is blamed for the tragic death of a farmer.
After the successful exemption from the prison cell, the duo flees through a lawless country, persecuted by two merciless men: the law enforcement officer Marshal Wood Helm (Josh Hopkins) and the fanatical bounty hunter Fenton “Preacher” Lang (Travis Fimmel), for violence, seems to have become a kind of religion …
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