There’s computers now.”Įric Kripke, showrunner for Amazon Prime Video’s The Boys, tweeted: “No more guns with blanks on any of my sets ever. “There’s no reason to have guns loaded with blanks or anything on set anymore,” he wrote on Twitter. Mare of Easttown director Craig Zobel revealed after the Rust incident that all gunshots on the popular HBO limited series are digital. The safety our cast and crew is too important. There will be no more ‘live’ weapons on the show.
Following Hutchins’ death, The Rookie showrunner Alexi Hawley wrote an internal memo that he described as “an emotional process.” In it, he announced that as of last Friday, “it is now policy on The Rookie that all gunfire on set will be Air Soft guns with CG muzzle flashes added in post.