Days before his Netflix action film Red Notice premieres, Dwayne Johnson is looking at how he can change his future productions in light of the tragic death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Alec Baldwin film Rust. The actor-producer has pledged to never again use real guns on projects produced by his company Seven Bucks Productions, Variety reports.
“First of all, I was heartbroken,” Johnson said to Variety at the premiere for Red Notice. “We lost a life. My heart goes out to her family and everybody on set. I’ve known Alec, too, for a very long time.
“I can’t speak for anyone else, but I can tell you without an absence of clarity here, that any move that we have moving forward with Seven Bucks Productions–any movie, television show, anything we do or produce–we won’t use real guns at all,” Johnson continued.
“We’re going to switch over to rubber guns and we’re going to take care of it in post,” Johnson said. “We’re not going to worry about the dollars. We won’t worry about what it costs.”
Seven Bucks Productions, founded by Johnson and Dany Garcia, has been a part of many of the actor’s recent and upcoming productions, including movies like Hobbs & Shaw, the Jumanji films, Skyscraper, his upcoming DC film Black Adam, as well as associated projects like the two Shazam! films. Red Notice, of course, is on the list as well.
“I love the movie business,” Johnson continued. “There are safety protocols and measures that we have always taken in the movie business and we take very seriously, and these sets are safe sets, and we’re proud of that. But accidents do happen. And when something like this happens of this magnitude, this heartbreaking, I think the most prudent thing and the smartest thing to do is just pause for a second and really re-examine how you’re going to move forward and how we’re going to work together.”
Red Notice premieres in theaters on November 5 and hits Netflix a week later on November 12.
