My Take on the Baldwin Episode

 It's a page 3 type story that still lingers around on page 1....a week later. 

First, you can  ask yourself who really wants to watch a Alec Baldwin 'cowboy-western'?  Out of a thousand people....probably fewer than twenty.  

I think this was a deal done on the cheap with one of the streaming video networks.....with a decent amount of cash but nowhere near the amount for what would have been a theater 'cowboy-western' for say....the 1990s era.

I think Baldwin was attempting to produce this at a certain price.....discovering a couple of weeks into it....that the profit margin was almost non-existent.  So he went even cheaper than normal.

The gun matter?  

I'm always reminded of the 1960s 'Apache Gold' movie.....where tens thousand blanks were fired (one of my top twenty 'cowboy-westerns').  No one was severely wounded in the movie....other than those who fell off the horses. 

That's the thing about it.....you go back through Bonanza, the Big Valley, High Chaparral, the Rifleman, Lone Ranger, Rawhide, Death Valley Days, Wagon Train, and Kung Fu (yes, it was a western)......there's just not incidents where gunfire killed someone.  You had experts on the set.....guys over forty mostly, who had ironclad rules about the use of weapons.  

So you add it up.....cheaply produced....the weapons-master being fairly young/inexperienced.....prop-guns being taken off the set for real gunfire practice....and people on a schedule to produce scenes.   Someone will get a manslaughter charge, and they will....in turn....sue the production company for various oversight problems.  The odds of the production company being bankrupt by the end of 2022?  I'd suggest that.

Movie being finished....ever?  I'd question this.  The network who financed this?  Screwed, I think.