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First Trailer for Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' after On-set Death

Alec Baldwin. ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images
Alec Baldwin. ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images
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First Trailer for Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' after On-set Death

Alec Baldwin. ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images
Alec Baldwin. ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images

The first trailer for Alec Baldwin's "Rust" -- the Western film made infamous by the fatal on-set shooting of its cinematographer -- was released Wednesday.

The dark movie trailer shows Baldwin's gunslinging character on the run with his grandson, who has been sentenced to hang for the accidental killing of a local rancher, AFP said.

"Some things in this life you can't get back," says Baldwin's character, in one scene.

In real life, Baldwin was pointing a gun toward cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal in New Mexico in 2021 when the weapon fired, killing her and wounding the film's director Joel Souza.

The Hollywood star was accused by prosecutors of violating gun safety rules, but his involuntary manslaughter trial collapsed last year over withheld evidence.

Both Baldwin and Souza returned to finish the movie, on another set in Montana.

It will now be released in limited US theaters on May 2 by tiny indie distributor Falling Forward Films.

Featuring a tombstone, a hanging and several shootouts, the trailer is accompanied by the sound of a foreboding thunderstorm, intense music, and ominous dialogue.

There are frequent shots of characters in silhouette or with their faces partly in shadow. Violence of all kinds -- gunfights, beatings, brawls in the mud -- is a clear motif.

The trailer concludes with a standoff between gunmen in a small dusty room, eerily reminiscent of the scene in which Hutchins was killed.

"Heaven ain't waiting on either one of us," says Baldwin, before the men draw guns on each other.

The film has already received its world premiere, at a Polish film festival in November.

Introducing the film, Souza said he had been "on the fence" about completing the movie, but was convinced to finish upon learning that Hutchins's husband wanted her final work to be seen.

Hutchins, a former journalist from Ukraine who grew up on a Soviet military base, was considered one of the industry's rising stars.

Baldwin did not attend the premiere, and it is unclear what role he will now play in promoting the film's release.

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In Show Stretched over 50 Years, Slovenian Director Shoots for Space

The first performance took place in 1995, and the last one will be in 2045. Jure Makovec / AFP
The first performance took place in 1995, and the last one will be in 2045. Jure Makovec / AFP
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In Show Stretched over 50 Years, Slovenian Director Shoots for Space

The first performance took place in 1995, and the last one will be in 2045. Jure Makovec / AFP
The first performance took place in 1995, and the last one will be in 2045. Jure Makovec / AFP

In an innovative show directed by Slovenian artist and space enthusiast Dragan Zivadinov, a crew of actors is putting on the same play once a decade over 50 years.

And if they die before the half-century run of performances ends? They are replaced by satellite-like devices that the director says will eventually be launched into space.

"If you ask me who will be the audience of these emancipated, auto-poetic devices -- it will be the Sun!" Zivadinov, 65, told AFP after the latest staging in the remote Slovenian town of Vitanje last month.

The first performance in the series took place on April 20, 1995, in the capital Ljubljana; the second was in Star City, a town outside Moscow that has prepared generations of Soviet and Russian cosmonauts. And the last one will be in 2045.

This time, 12 actors, most of them in their sixties, took part, wearing futuristic monochrome coveralls and dancing along a spaceship-like cross-shaped stage made of monitors.

Two so-called "umbots" -- artistic satellite-like devices emitting sounds -- replaced actors who have died since 1995.

'Makes you think'

Hundreds turned up to watch the play, "Love and Sovereignty", a tragedy set in the early 17th century by Croatian playwright Vladimir Stojsavljevic. It deals with power and art and features English playwright William Shakespeare as a character.

"It is an interesting experience, makes you think," Eneja Stemberger, who studies acting in Ljubljana, told AFP after watching the packed show.

Tickets offered for free online quickly ran out, but the organizers allowed even those who came without tickets to watch the show, standing or sitting on the floor.

German art consultant Darius Bork told AFP that he had already seen the play 10 years ago, describing Zivadinov's work as "absolutely fantastic".

Zivadinov became internationally recognized in the 1980s as one of the founders of Slovenia's avant-garde movement Neue Slowenische Kunst (New Slovenian Art), which criticized totalitarian regimes in then-Communist Yugoslavia.

At the end of the century, Zivadinov turned to develop "post-gravity art".

He also helped set up a space research center in Vitanje, named after the early space travel theorist Herman Potocnik, who went by the pseudonym of Noordung and whose work inspired Stanley Kubrick's film "2001: A Space Odyssey".

The Center Noordung hosted this year's and the 2015 performance.

The "Noordung: 1995-2025-2045" project's final performance will feature only "umbots" and so be "liberated from human influence", Zivadinov said.

At the end of the project, the "umbots" -- containing digitalized information, including the actors' DNA -- will be propelled into space to "culturize" it, he added, without detailing how he would do that.

"They will all be launched simultaneously, each one into a different direction, deep into space," he said.