Director Joel Souza, who was shot on the set of Alec Baldwin’s film “Rust,” was released from a New Mexico hospital late Thursday and is making a full recovery, according to a person with knowledge of his condition. are supposed to.
According to police, Mr Souza, 48, was taken to Christus St Vincent Regional Medical Center after Mr Baldwin opened fire from a gun used as a prop, killing the film’s cinematographer Helena Hutchins.
The person with knowledge of Mr Souza’s condition, who works with the production company, requested anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the details of the case.
“Director Joel Souza told me he was out of the hospital,” wrote Francis Fisher, an actress in the film. on twitter In the early hours of Friday in response to reports that Mr Souza was seriously injured.
The circumstances of the firing are being investigated.
Mr. Souza, who lives in the San Francisco area, has written or directed six relatively low-budget independent films over the past decade, most recently directing the 2019 film “Crown Vic”, a story about a Los Angeles cop. follows. Responding to a series of violent incidents, department officials patrolled the city.
In an interview in May 2019In , Mr Souza detailed how closely he worked with the film’s director of photography, Thomas Scott Stanton, when the actors made improvisational adjustments.
“I kind of storyboard everything, I’m obsessed about it,” he said, adding that the two of them often threw out their plans to “fly by the seat of our pants.”
According to movie database site IMDB, his first directing credit came in 2017 on the low-budget crime drama, “Break Night.”