‘Rust’ to resume filming in Montana after leaving New Mexico

legacy through championing this film,” Yellowstone Film Ranch’s co-founders Richard Gray, Carter Boehm and Colin Davis said in a joint statement.

Director Joel Souza, who was injured in the incident, will return to complete the production.

“I am deeply grateful to Richie, Carter, and Colin for the invitation to the Yellowstone Film Ranch in Montana,” Souza said in a statement. “Their unwavering friendship, support, and now partnership in completing Rust and honoring Halyna means the world to me and our entire production team. The beauty of Montana surpasses words, and the warm hospitality and kindness extended by everyone I’ve met has been both humbling and inspiring. It is a privilege to work with such great partners as we see this through on Halyna’s behalf.”

The production will continue to use union crew members and will no longer allow working weapons or “any form of ammunition” on set, according to a news release from the production company published earlier this month.

As the film’s production is set to continue, criminal cases are moving forward against Baldwin and film set armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who was in charge of maintaining firearms, ammunition and gun safety on the set. Both are being charged with involuntary manslaughter in Santa Fe.

The pair had also initially faced a five-year sentencing enhancement to the charges, but those were removed after prosecutors agreed it couldn’t be applied because the law establishing the enhancement wasn’t enacted until seven months after the shooting. The change reduced the maximum incarceration for the defendants, if convicted, from 6 years to 18 months.

Assistant director David Halls has agreed to plead guilty to a charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon.