Brandon Lee died while making the movie The Crow. Did they actually catch his death on film?
When Brandon Lee was shot and killed during the filming of ‘The Crow’ the cameras were running at the time. However, the footage of Lee’s death was immediately destroyed and never developed. When the first unit used this gun to shoot Lee’s death scene, the chamber was loaded with blanks which had no bullets. However, there was still the bullet in the barrel, which was propelled out by the blank cartridge’s explosion. Consequently, Lee was shot and killed as cameras rolled in Wilmington, North Carolina. The footage of his death was soon destroyed without ever being developed. After his tragic death, he was buried next to his father in Lake View Cemetery, Capitol Hill, Seattle, Washington. The shooting was ruled an accident, though many fans suspected foul play. (Bruce Lee’s own death in 1973 at age 32, apparently from a reaction to painkillers, was also considered suspicious.) Oddly, Bruce Lee’s character in Game of Death is shot in a similar fashion. Bruce’s character, like Brandon’s i
