Alec Baldwin isn’t leaving his acting career on the cutting room floor. The actor is following up his family-focused reality show The Baldwins with a new film role in writer-director Victoria DeMartin feature-length debut, The Cutting Room Floor. The news comes from Deadline, which also reports that Baldwin will star alongside Michael Boatman (The Good Fight) and Karen Allen (Indiana Jones).
Per the outlet, the film will follow “an aspiring film editor who receives the opportunity of a lifetime but sees her world begin to spiral out of control when the film starts to mirror her own life, blurring the lines between fiction and reality.” It’s set to go into production this summer from a script written by DeMartin, which recently won First Place in the Golden Script Fellowship competition.
The Cutting Room Floor isn’t the only movie Baldwin will appear in following his dropped manslaughter charges last year. In a controversial move, the team behind Rust—the set on which Baldwin’s prop gun infamously discharged a live bullet, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins—decided to finish and premiere the Western in Hutchins’ memory. Baldwin still stars, although the specific scene in which the tragedy occurred has reportedly been completely reimagined. The film just released its first trailer, which you can watch if you so choose here. Baldwin will also star in Hollywood Heist, a film hailing from director Mike Hatton in which he’ll reportedly play a fictionalized version of himself alongside Mickey Rourke, Tara Reid, and Nick Cannon. We’ll see if that alternate-universe version of Baldwin incorporates any of the events of the past four years whenever the film wraps.
