You can probably tell, but who cares? It’s an unnecessary risk.”īill Dill - a cinematographer who taught Hutchins, a rising star in her field, at the American Film Institute - expressed disgust in an interview over the “archaic practice of using real guns with blanks in them, when we have readily available and inexpensive computer graphics.”ĭill, whose credits include “The Five Heartbeats” and “Dancing in September,” said there was added danger from real guns because “people are working long hours” on films and “are exhausted.” The gunshots on ‘Mare of Easttown’ are all digital. “There’s no reason to have guns loaded with blanks or anything on set anymore,” Zobel wrote on Twitter.
The director of the popular Kate Winslet drama “Mare of Easttown,” Craig Zobel, called for the entire industry to follow suit and said gunshots on that show were added after filming, even though on previous productions he has used live rounds. Instead, he said, the policy would be to use replica guns, which use pellets and not bullets, with muzzle flashes added in post-production.
There “will be no more ‘live’ weapons on the show,” he wrote in a note, first reported by The Hollywood Reporter and confirmed by The Associated Press.
“Any risk is too much risk,” the executive producer of ABC’s police drama “The Rookie” announced in a staff memo Friday, saying the events in New Mexico had “shaken us all.” Jon-Erik Hexum, Brandon Lee and Other Victims of Fatal Hollywood Accidentsįor Alexi Hawley, it is.