Alec Baldwin kills someone in movie accident

[C-grunt]

During the filming of a new western movie Alec Baldwin discharged a prop blank firing gun. For an unknown reason the gun fired some sort of projectile which hit the movie director and the director of photography. The photography director died at the hospital.

I wonder if this is going to be some sort of incident like what happened to Brandon Lee?

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...c-baldwin-film

[titsonritz]

During the filming of a new western movie Alec Baldwin discharged a prop blank firing gun. For an unknown reason the gun fired some sort of projectile which hit the movie director and the director of photography. The photography director died at the hospital.

I wonder if this is going to be some sort of incident like what happened to Brandon Lee?

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...c-baldwin-film

Michael Massee was freaked out and never forgave himself, probably contributed to his stomach cancer.

[BoringGuy45]

The first thing I thought was Brandon Lee, too. In Lee's death, I guess the prop department, wanting to have a close up of a loaded revolver, loaded the gun with rounds that had the powder removed, but they forgot to remove the primer. One of the rounds was fired which caused a squib. Then, in the next scene, they fired the revolver with a blank, which then discharged the stuck round with full pressure, which killed Lee.

I can only guess that something like that happened here. We'll see. It sucks all around.

[SteyrAUG]

The first thing I thought was Brandon Lee, too. In Lee's death, I guess the prop department, wanting to have a close up of a loaded revolver, loaded the gun with rounds that had the powder removed, but they forgot to remove the primer. One of the rounds was fired which caused a squib. Then, in the next scene, they fired the revolver with a blank, which then discharged the stuck round with full pressure, which killed Lee.

I can only guess that something like that happened here. We'll see. It sucks all around.

Brandon Lee was the first thing that came to my mind. In that incident the official story is the prop gun was used in a live fire event (something that should NEVER happen, you never combine prop guns with live firearms or vice versa) and a squib round occurred that was never corrected and the round remained in the barrel.

The firearm was then returned to the movie set where the blank was of sufficient power to cause the squib round to become a lethal projectile.

That official version of events asks a LOT when it comes to credibility. I suppose somebody could be that incompetent, but that sequence of events just seems unlikely. Whatever actually happened I think the Lee family decided they had had enough hardship and didn't want to sensationalize Brandon's death in the way his fathers death was tabloid fodder for years.

The squib caused by primer does sound a bit more plausible but still unacceptable. Check the damn bore every time you knobs.

The scary thing is to consider his fathers film "Game of Death" where Bruce Lee plays a martial arts actor who refuses to sign a management contract with the local crime syndicates so they send a hitman who gains access to the film set and a live round is swapped for a blank in a prop gun. Of course in the film, Lee isn't actually killed but fakes his own death in order to hunt down everyone responsible.

The implication is still there however and movie sets in the 90s weren't exactly Ft. Knox and it wouldn't be inconceivable that some sick in the head F'er gained access and introduced live ammo to a prop gun in some twisted replay of his fathers last film. In any event the gun wranglers on that film didn't strike me as terribly professional or responsible individuals who were essentially using live firearms for movie props.

A little basic gun safety would have gone a long way in both of these events and simple things like "verify the bore condition" might have saved lives. I've seen enough blank firing adapters launched downrange when they failed to respect the power of a blank round.

[titsonritz]

A little basic gun safety would have gone a long way in both of these events and simple things like "verify the bore condition" might have saved lives. I've seen enough blank firing adapters launched downrange when they failed to respect the power of a blank round.

That really is the sad bottom line, 100% preventable and lesson should have already been learned.

[prdubi]

Brandon Lee was the first thing that came to my mind. In that incident the official story is the prop gun was used in a live fire event (something that should NEVER happen, you never combine prop guns with live firearms or vice versa) and a squib round occurred that was never corrected and the round remained in the barrel.

The firearm was then returned to the movie set where the blank was of sufficient power to cause the squib round to become a lethal projectile.

That official version of events asks a LOT when it comes to credibility. I suppose somebody could be that incompetent, but that sequence of events just seems unlikely. Whatever actually happened I think the Lee family decided they had had enough hardship and didn't want to sensationalize Brandon's death in the way his fathers death was tabloid fodder for years.

The squib caused by primer does sound a bit more plausible but still unacceptable. Check the damn bore every time you knobs.

The scary thing is to consider his fathers film "Game of Death" where Bruce Lee plays a martial arts actor who refuses to sign a management contract with the local crime syndicates so they send a hitman who gains access to the film set and a live round is swapped for a blank in a prop gun. Of course in the film, Lee isn't actually killed but fakes his own death in order to hunt down everyone responsible.

The implication is still there however and movie sets in the 90s weren't exactly Ft. Knox and it wouldn't be inconceivable that some sick in the head F'er gained access and introduced live ammo to a prop gun in some twisted replay of his fathers last film. In any event the gun wranglers on that film didn't strike me as terribly professional or responsible individuals who were essentially using live firearms for movie props.

A little basic gun safety would have gone a long way in both of these events and simple things like "verify the bore condition" might have saved lives. I've seen enough blank firing adapters launched downrange when they failed to respect the power of a blank round.

Brandon Lee was killed by the same people that killed his father because of what they wanted to share from the kung fu world.

End of story.

Red belt Hapkido here ...don't know my degree..but my master Sensei trained with Lee in the 60s and believes he was murdered.

I accept it.

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[gaijin]

Obviously, none of those douchebags were/are “gun people”.
I cannot imagine being around a group like that with so many safety violations.

[SteyrAUG]

Brandon Lee was killed by the same people that killed his father because of what they wanted to share from the kung fu world.

End of story.

Red belt Hapkido here ...don't know my degree..but my master Sensei trained with Lee in the 60s and believes he was murdered.

I accept it.

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Brandon Lee "may" have been killed intentionally. His father however had a fatal allergic reaction to a popular analgesic taken by many in Hong Kong. He had a previous reaction that was not fatal but nobody made the connection. Using aspirin rather than a more traditional remedy in the form of an analgesic would have saved Lee's life.

There is so much misinformation surrounding the death of Lee I really cannot have this conversation. Believe what you will, but some objective investigation will probably change your mind. Bruce Lee had no "secrets of the kung fu" world, in fact he was abandoning most of it in favor of a more practical, eclectic system.

Furthermore, Lee began his classical training with Yip Man at age 13 and was in the US by age 18. His knowledge of Wing Chun was very incomplete and he had less than 5 years of study in a popular Hong Kong style, he didn't have any secrets to divulge other than his own personal realizations. There is also no "kung fu" mafia operating in Hong Kong making sure nobody learns secret Chinese arts, there is to the contrary a chain of schools known as Ching Wu that were established in many countries in order to promote correct, traditional Chinese boxing instruction. Given that one of these Ching Wu schools was based in San Francisco, I don't think they were hiding anything.

[WillBrink]

Just wow. So already trying to milk it for his own massive ego and narcissism with this scripted nonsense. So now the gun went off without even pulling the trigger? If there's a vid some place from that set of him pulling that trigger, and or enough eyewitnesses who saw it, he's now on camera lying. He'd be far better off just admitting he's clueless about guns, and did the scene, pulled the trigger, and the gun went bang and he has no idea how a live rnd got there.

Alec Baldwin exclusive: 'The trigger wasn't pulled. I didn't pull the trigger'

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment...NOmZygWhFSc16E

[WillBrink]

Wow. Body cams from the event, purple haired kid as armorer who should be no where near guns, etc, etc. People respond differently to trauma but everything about Baldwin seems like he's more annoyed it interrupted their schedule: