New Documentary Trailer for ‘The Trial of Alec Baldwin’ Offers Candid Look at Actor’s ‘Rust’ Ordeal

“How the hell did I end up in this vortex?” Baldwin asks in the trailer.

“When they told me she died, I was in shock,” Alec Baldwin says in the new trailer for the upcoming documentary, The Trial of Alec Baldwin. The film chronicles the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was killed in 2021 when a live round was fired from a prop gun on the set of Rust. Baldwin has maintained that he never pulled the trigger. The footage captures the immediate aftermath of the shooting as Baldwin and others prepare for a swarm of paparazzi. The documentary opens in select theaters in October before expanding to wide release on October 16.

The trailer also examines Baldwin’s fraught relationship with the tabloid press, revisiting past confrontations with photographers and the intense scrutiny he has faced since the shooting. “I want to be acquitted so I can just walk out the door and everyone just leave me alone,” he says in the clip.

It also claims that local authorities sought to leverage Baldwin’s indictment for political gain. With what appears to be unprecedented access to the actor, one scene supposedly captures the moment Baldwin learned of the indictment during a phone call. In another scene, he states, “They’d definitely put me in jail if they could.”

“If you said to me, ‘Hike up Mt. Everest, and she’ll come back,’ I’d be packed and ready to go,” Baldwin says in the clip. “Whatever I could do … but there’s nothing I could do.”

Directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Rory Kennedy (Last Days in Vietnam, 2015), the film addresses the trial of Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, as well as unusual aspects of Baldwin’s own case, such as prosecutor Kari Morrissey testifying at her own trial. “How the hell did I end up in this vortex?” Baldwin asks in the trailer. Baldwin’s manslaughter case was ultimately dismissed.

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