Alec Baldwin - Rust’s star-producer who discharged the Colt. In the weeks since cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza was injured in a live-gun mishap on the set of the indie Western Rust, such questions have dramatically gained in urgency. “It makes you question how many decisions filmmakers are making these days because ‘that’s kind of the way we always did it,’ as opposed to, ‘Here are new options and different, better, safer ways of doing this.’” “Visual effects are not just for the big illusion they are also for making things safer,” Janzen says. In the resulting scene, laserlike zips of gunfire convincingly ricochet off tanks and past soldiers’ heads.
After extensively studying the drifting trajectory of tracer ammo, effects technicians used compositing software that could not only convincingly simulate the travel of glowing rounds but also add muzzle flash and shell ejection to prop gunshots during postproduction, vastly reducing both the cost of filming the scene and the dangers faced by actors, stunt performers, and crew members while shooting it. The solution turned out to be as inexpensive as it was hazard-minimizing. “He wanted to bring this supreme level of accuracy to everything.” “In kind of an obsessive manner, he knew that when the Germans were firing this kind of gun, every sixth bullet was green, and when the Americans were firing that gun, every fifth bullet was red,” recalls Fury’s visual-effects artist, Beau Janzen. But the myriad safety risks, high costs, and production obstacles associated with blocking dozens of shots using live rounds made filming an actual tracer shoot-out all but impossible.
Writer-director David Ayer - whose artillery-heavy filmography includes Suicide Squad, End of Watch, and Netflix’s Bright - had been consumed with properly rendering tracer fire, those luminous bullets that help soldiers visually follow the flight of ammunition in battle, onscreen. The breakthrough came in a hail of gunfire on the 2013 Brad Pitt–starring World War II tank epic Fury.
Calls for bans on functional firearms have been made, but entertainment-industry consensus regarding the abolition of guns on set remains elusive.
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