Filmmaking Doc ‘Last Take: Rust & the Story of Halyna’ Official Trailer

Filmmaking Doc ‘Last Take: Rust & the Story of Halyna’ Official Trailer

by Alex Billington
February 28, 2025
Source: YouTube

“What really happened on that set?” Hulu has revealed an official trailer for the documentary Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna, set for a streaming debut in March. This is really a true crime doc made for Hulu, but it’s more about filmmaking, always going back to the same question: How could this happen? In 2021, on the set of the movie Rust, a prop gun held by actor Alec Baldwin fired a live bullet, wounding the film’s director and killing its cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins. Within hours, the catastrophic accident was enveloped by a frenzy of media attention. For months, then years, as lawsuits flew and criminal trials unfolded, the spectacle around the case then overshadowed a private, personal tragedy. Rigorously reported, emotionally raw, and deeply personal, this modern documentary seeks to redeem the core of the story that the media exploited — that of a talented cinematographer whose life story was minimized, yet in death gave her colleagues an unexpected opportunity to heal from unimaginable loss by completing the film that mattered deeply to her. This looks like an unsettling watch, digging into too many problems that lead to this tragedy.

Official trailer for Rachel Mason’s doc film Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna, from YouTube:

In the Hulu Original docuseries Last Take, Halyna’s friend, director Rachel Mason, goes beyond the public narrative to reveal the untold human story of that terrible day and all that followed — from the vantage point of the people at the center of the tragedy. The film weaves together the accounts of those who were on the set of RUST that day and of those, like Mason, who not only lost a cherished friend and colleague but who are still navigating the trauma of the aftermath. Working with public court records, behind-the-scenes material from RUST, and unprecedented access to key individuals and materials involved in this incident, including Halyna’s personal archives, the film examines the official investigations into the safety protocols on set & explores the private moral reckoning of all involved. It probes for answers to questions those close to Halyna all carry. How could this have happened? And how do we possibly make sense of it?

Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna is directed & produced by filmmaker Rachel Mason, director of the films The Lives of Hamilton Fish and Circus of Books previously, plus a few shorts and other projects. A Hulu Original produced by Julee Metz, Kate Barry, Jon Bardin, and Will Cohen for Story Syndicate, and Jessica Grimshaw, Nick Shumaker, Jennifer Sears for Anonymous Content. Hulu debuts Mason’s doc Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna streaming on Hulu starting March 11th, 2025. Who wants to watch?

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