Attorneys for Alec Baldwin and other producers of the movie “Rust” are asking a court to dismiss a civil lawsuit filed by a script supervisor who was on the set when the actor fatally shot a cinematographer.
In a filing in the Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday, the attorneys said the claim by Mamie Mitchell should be thrown out because there was no evidence that Baldwin or any of the producers intended harm.
Baldwin was the lead actor and a producer of the independent film, a Western.
“Despite the Plaintiff’s attempt to label claims as intentional, nothing about the Plaintiff’s allegations suggest that any of Defendants intentionally committed harmful conduct,” the filing said.
Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza was wounded when the gun discharged as Baldwin was rehearsing on the New Mexico film set.
Mitchell, who said she was in the line of fire, alleges assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and deliberate infliction of harm, and is seeking unspecified damages in the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.
The producers are “trying to avoid explaining their conduct before a judge and a jury in a court of law,” she said in a statement.
