Made for Shudder, airing April 16th in the US.
Season 1. Episode 4.
The story: There have been many theories surrounding the death of Bruce Lee and his son Brandon.
Those theories stretch from a family curse to the Chinese Mafia.
But in all actuality, their deaths were purely accidental...
'The Crow' is a movie based on the popular comic book written by James OBarr.
As part of Obarr's therapy after losing his fiancee to a drunk driver, he wrote 'The Crow', a story of love and loss.
The film crew who made the movie were lovers of the comic/story and were all in.
They began filming in Wilmington, NC, on February first, 1993.
The very first tragedy that occurred and pointed out from the get-go that the movie was cursed was a crew member backing up a truck with a cherry picker into an electric line, catching on fire and losing his ears...
That was chalked up as bad luck.
Then a massively destructible hurricane blew in, destroying a complete backlot set.
The filmmaker's first and only choice for the lead was Brandon Lee based on some of his work in films, needing an athletic actor.
They found his work impressive, like his father's.
On March 30, 1993, the 47th day into production one of the scenes was changed at the last minute.
The scene was to see Brandon's character being stabbed but was changed to shot.
While filming the changing scene, the dummy bullet, which had been overlooked from weeks prior, had lodged a real bullet in the chamber, killing him.
The actor who had pulled the trigger was devastated as well as the crew.
No one wanted to go on and finish the film.
But when Brandon's fiancee and mother stepped up to encourage for his sake, they did just that.
Stars Ryan Turek, Jeff Most, Michael Berryman, Lance Anderson, Bridget Baiss , Stefano Beninati, Colin Geddes, Phil Nobile Jr
Directed by (& story written) Jay Cheel
Not Rated
DOCUMENTARY/HISTORY/CRIME/SERIES/BIOGRAPHY
"You can't be prepared for these moments but you can carry on in honor of those that have left us."
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