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| Topic | Dwayne Johnson pledges to stop using real guns on his productions |
| Lebronwon 11/04/21 1:05:10 PM #1: | https://variety.com/2021/film/news/dwayne-johnson-gun-safety-movies-halyna-hutchins-death-rust-1235104627/ Dwayne Johnsons new movie for Netflix, Red Notice, stars three of the biggest celebrities on the planet Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot and is one of many Hollywood films that feature firearms for the sake of action-packed storylines. Red Notice, which launches on the streaming service on Nov. 12, followed very careful safety protocols on-set, as most productions do. But after the tragic death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on Alec Baldwins film Rust, Johnson is pledging to stop using real firearms on all projects that are produced by his company, Seven Bucks Productions. First of all, I was heartbroken, Johnson began, speaking to Variety at Wednesday nights premiere of Red Notice in Los Angeles. We lost a life. My heart goes out to her family and everybody on set. Ive known Alec, too, for a very long time. Johnson, who has to handle firearms in Red Notice, says he will only use rubber guns on his sets, and will enforce that rule with any studio he is working with. I cant speak for anyone else, but I can tell you, without an absence of clarity here, that any movie that we have moving forward with Seven Bucks Productions any movie, any television show, or anything we do or produce we wont use real guns at all, Johnson said to Variety. Were going to switch over to rubber guns, and were going to take care of it in post, he said. Were not going to worry about the dollars; we wont worry about what it costs. Johnson recalled that after news broke confirming that Hutchins had died on the Rust set, he was on the phone with his team within a couple of hours to discuss what changes his company needed to make to ensure complete safety moving forward. I love the movie business, Johnson said. There are safety protocols and measures that we have always taken in the movie business and we take very seriously, and these sets are safe sets, and were proud of that. But accidents do happen. And when something like this happens of this magnitude, [that is] this heartbreaking, I think the most prudent thing and the smartest thing to do is just pause for a second and really re-examine how youre going to move forward and how were going to work together. Any movie we do that Seven Bucks does with any studio, the rule is were not going to use real guns. Thats it, he continued. --- Not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, not 5, not 6, not 7 ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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