Rumors fly, as always, when celebrity deaths are clouded by mystery. As The Crow taped, racking up one mishap after another, cast and crew whispered of a curse--the Curse of the
Crow....And when Brandon Lee was killed, the media trotted out the Curse of the Dragon...And what of the Joy Division Curse? By curse, by fickle fate--or, as some believe, by
murder--Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee have joined the ranks of fate's children (Marilyn Monroe, Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain).
StarThrillerBrandonLee's aim is to seek out the truth; to shed light on these so-called mysteries and crush the rumors. What is the truth behind Brandon Lee's Death? Find out inside.
His Life...His Death...The Rumors...The Truth
Bruce Lee was a 22-year-old sophomore at the University of Washington and Linda Emery was a 17-year-old senior at Garfield High School. He was dark; she was blonde. Bruce was a martial
artist; Linda was a cheerleader. She saw him first when he came to her high school to lecture on Chinese philosophy. They met later when she went with a friend to Bruce's Jeet Kune Do situ, the
Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute. After class one day, they went to a Chinese restaurant and that is where their love began to bloom.
They began dating in secret, because Linda feared her family wouldn't approve of their interracial relationship. It wasn't long before they decided to marry.
artist; Linda was a cheerleader. She saw him first when he came to her high school to lecture on Chinese philosophy. They met later when she went with a friend to Bruce's Jeet Kune Do situ, the
Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute. After class one day, they went to a Chinese restaurant and that is where their love began to bloom.
They began dating in secret, because Linda feared her family wouldn't approve of their interracial relationship. It wasn't long before they decided to marry.
When Bruce told his father that he was going to marry a white girl, Lee Hoi Chuen said that it would give him much pleasure if
his son married his own kind, but, if he truly loved Linda, the union had his blessings--after all, Bruce's mother, Grace, was half
German and half Chinese.
As she had feared, Linda’s family did not approve at all of their relationship. Linda's father had died when she was young and her mother was understandably over-protective. She wanted the best
for her only child, and she didn't think Bruce Lee was it. Aside from the obvious, Mrs. Emery didn't think Bruce's teaching and Kung fu situhad a future, much less support her daughter.
Determined to prove himself a worthy husband, Bruce opened another situ , Jan Fan Gung Fu Institute in Oakland, California
In the end, the young lovers decided to elope, but when they applied for a marriage license, their names appeared in the paper. One of Linda's aunts saw it, and the poop hit the high wind. A big
family meeting was called to order and the couple was called on the carpet. The aunt and her husband were religious and they thought interracial marriage was an abomination. But nothing any of
Linda's family said could persuade Linda and Bruce to even delay their marriage, much less call the whole thing off. (Because Bruce died not many years after their marriage, and their time
together was so short, Linda has said that if they hadn't gotten married when they did there might not have been a Brandon or a Shannon.)
Love won out.
Bruce Lee Jun Fan and Linda Emery were married at the Seattle Congregational Church, August 1964.
Then came Brandon.
Brandon Bruce Lee Gwok Ho was born in Oakland, CA, on Monday, February 1, 1965, on the Chinese New Year's Eve, the last day of
the Year of the Dragon. According to his mom, Linda, he had black hair that later turned blond. His dad, Bruce, pronounced him the
only blond, grey-eyed Chinaman on Earth. It grew darker as he grew older. He was all boy, running circles around his mother, as boys
will. According to the Bruce Lee Movement, he was a tough kid, and Linda has said that he was hard to raise because he was always
challenging the norm. Bruce was away making movies much of the time and, although this made him sad, he adored his father, who
began training him in the martial art of Jeet Kune Do, when he was barely walking, and later they appeared in expositions. He was
a camera ham who always wanted to be an actor, but not in his father's footsteps.
Brandon Lee was a rebel with a cause. He spent his whole life trying to erase that comma after his name, and would have, had he
time enough.
His father's death devastated him; he became a withdrawn, angry young man. Brandon was a poor student, not for lack of intellect.
He was just one of those bright students who do not see the need for school and do not try or do not thrive in the traditional classroom.
He had issues with authority, always challenged the norm, and attended several high schools. When John Lennon was shot to death in
1980, student union president Brandon dismissed his grade out of respect for the fallen Beatle, and was expelled. He was expelled from
Chadwick School, in Palos Verdes, CA,, for insubordination, and never returned. He got his high school diploma at nearby Miraleste. He
attended Emerson Collage in Boston for a year; then transferred to New York City and attended the Lee Strasberg Academy, and joined
the famed Eric Morris's American Theatre Group. Linda has said that while watching him act during those days she forgot he was her son.
According to Linda, Brandon's first role was at age six when he kicked his way though one of his father's early films, but his first
professional movie was Kung Fu: The Movie 1986, based on the hit TV show by the same name. David Caradine was set to reprise the role
of Chang Caine, the renegade Shoalin monk, who wanders the West helping people in trouble. The TV series had been Bruce Lee's idea,
but the producers didn't want to cast him in the lead because he was too Chinese-looking. Duh. How much that affected Brandon is
anyone's guess, but when he was approached to play Caine's son in the movie version, he was reluctant. He was unhappy about the
martial arts stuff; he didn't want his own skills compared with Bruce's and he felt doing the movie would cast him deeper into his father's
shadow. The producers sat him down and told him this movie would be the perfect vehicle to begin his career. In the end, of course,
he caved in.
He didn't want to do O'Hara, 1986, either, but, again, he gave into pressure from producers.
Unhappy with the roles he was being offered in the USA--like his father before him--Brandon Lee went to Hong Kong and made action movies. He made Legacy of Rage in 1986. During the filming
of Legacy, Brandon earned a reputation of being an arrogant, rich brat, but a couple years later he had matured and come to terms with his father's fame, blossoming into a sweet, charming young
man, a joy to work with. Back in the USA, in 1987, he made Kung Fu: The Next Generation, a modern version of the series, in the role of Johnny Caine, grandson of the character he played in Kung
Fu: The Movie. Laser Mission followed in 1990; Showdown in Little Tokyo 1991; and Rapid Fire 1992.
He was offered the part of his father in Dragon: the Bruce Lee Story, but turned it down and opted to make The Crow.
The Crow is based on the comic book series by the same name, written and illustrated by James O'Barr of Detroit, Michigan.
Ironically, just as the filming, in March 1993, died in tragedy, so the comic was born in tragedy. When O'Barr was sixteen, he met the love of his life, and they planned to marry after graduation.
But when she was two weeks shy of eighteen, she was struck and killed by a drunk driver, and O'Barr went into a tailspin of anger and poisoned soul. Writing The Crow comics was his therapy, the
way he worked that poison out of his life. Eric Draven is James O'Barr. For years, he kept the comic for his eyes only. Then, one day, he showed it to Gary Reed, owner of his comic book shop
haunt, Comics Plus. Reed liked it so much he began publishing
The Crow series, and Caliber comics was born.
Ironically, just as the filming, in March 1993, died in tragedy, so the comic was born in tragedy. When O'Barr was sixteen, he met the love of his life, and they planned to marry after graduation.
But when she was two weeks shy of eighteen, she was struck and killed by a drunk driver, and O'Barr went into a tailspin of anger and poisoned soul. Writing The Crow comics was his therapy, the
way he worked that poison out of his life. Eric Draven is James O'Barr. For years, he kept the comic for his eyes only. Then, one day, he showed it to Gary Reed, owner of his comic book shop
haunt, Comics Plus. Reed liked it so much he began publishing
The Crow series, and Caliber comics was born.
The Series sold fairly well by word of mouth. And Hollywood called with an offer. The writer turned producer John Shirley
(The Specialist), Jeff Most (Top 40 Videos), and Ed Pressman (Badlands) were directly responsible for leading The Crow into production.
It has been said that Brandon Lee lobbied for the part of Eric Draven. Perhaps--casting did consider Christian Slatter, Johnny
Depp, River Phoenix, rocker Charlie Sexton--but, in the end, Brandon Lee was the only actor offered the role. It's screenplay was
written by John Shirley and David J. Schow, directed by Alex Proyas, Carolco Studios, Wilmington, N.C, on a low-budget start-out
$11 million--some say $14--smackers sounds like a lot of money, until you start cutting it into budgets for all your departments:
payroll and benefits, insurance, and incidentals; Brandon Lee was paid $300,000--another source says $750,000; James O'Barr was
paid the traditional $1 with more to come; the costume department got $130,000 and so on down the line from photography to
art, got their respective budgets. The problem with fixing budgets is that things happen that no one can control. Including Mother
Nature. You can't control the weather. Them's the breaks.
(The Specialist), Jeff Most (Top 40 Videos), and Ed Pressman (Badlands) were directly responsible for leading The Crow into production.
It has been said that Brandon Lee lobbied for the part of Eric Draven. Perhaps--casting did consider Christian Slatter, Johnny
Depp, River Phoenix, rocker Charlie Sexton--but, in the end, Brandon Lee was the only actor offered the role. It's screenplay was
written by John Shirley and David J. Schow, directed by Alex Proyas, Carolco Studios, Wilmington, N.C, on a low-budget start-out
$11 million--some say $14--smackers sounds like a lot of money, until you start cutting it into budgets for all your departments:
payroll and benefits, insurance, and incidentals; Brandon Lee was paid $300,000--another source says $750,000; James O'Barr was
paid the traditional $1 with more to come; the costume department got $130,000 and so on down the line from photography to
art, got their respective budgets. The problem with fixing budgets is that things happen that no one can control. Including Mother
Nature. You can't control the weather. Them's the breaks.
The Crow was filmed in a coastal town, primarily at night, in February and March. Winter. Temperatures dropped below 20
degrees Fahrenheit; it poured rain, drizzled, and misted, most of the time, and when it did stop, they used rain machines and hosed
down the set to get that wet, gloomy-dark look. A hurricane destroyed the set and it had to be rebuilt. There was no budget for
medics; people got hurt, and the company was fined. They had to hire medics--Clyde Baisey and Dione Kirby. And on it went, one
thing after another. A carpenter, in a cherry picker, was electrocuted when his crane struck a high-power line. Though severely
burned, he survived. A dissatisfied worker rammed his vehicle through the plaster shop, causing extensive damage that had to be
fixed. Another worked stumbled and impaled a screwdriver through his hand. A stunt man fell through the roof of one of
the sets and broke several bones. The grip truck burst into flames, destroying much of the cab's interior and equipment, and
had to be replaced. And on and on...
By all accounts, as the clock ticked toward half-past midnight, Wednesday, March 31, 1993, The Crow was over-budget
and over-time. And production crammed as much as they could into 6/24; they cut the so-called fat. Can you say weapons
specialist Jim Moyer? Out the door. That's the equivalent of kicking the anesthesiologist out of the operating room after a
20-hour surgery. Of course, hindsight is 20/20, isn't it? And they had already filmed some awesome shoot-em-up scenes
without incident, had they not? And nothing bad ever happens doing that stuff, anyway, right? Just ask Jon-Erik Hexum
and Vic Morrow. If You fail to remember the past it is doomed to be repeated.
On Tuesday, March 30, at 8 p.m., day 50, the cast and crew were on stage 4, at Carolco Studios., to film the murder scene. In the comic book, Eric and Shelly are murdered on the roadside by a
gang of hopped-up junkies; in the screenplay, the lovers were to be murdered in their loft. They rehearsed the scene a couple of times, then it was time to shoot.
degrees Fahrenheit; it poured rain, drizzled, and misted, most of the time, and when it did stop, they used rain machines and hosed
down the set to get that wet, gloomy-dark look. A hurricane destroyed the set and it had to be rebuilt. There was no budget for
medics; people got hurt, and the company was fined. They had to hire medics--Clyde Baisey and Dione Kirby. And on it went, one
thing after another. A carpenter, in a cherry picker, was electrocuted when his crane struck a high-power line. Though severely
burned, he survived. A dissatisfied worker rammed his vehicle through the plaster shop, causing extensive damage that had to be
fixed. Another worked stumbled and impaled a screwdriver through his hand. A stunt man fell through the roof of one of
the sets and broke several bones. The grip truck burst into flames, destroying much of the cab's interior and equipment, and
had to be replaced. And on and on...
By all accounts, as the clock ticked toward half-past midnight, Wednesday, March 31, 1993, The Crow was over-budget
and over-time. And production crammed as much as they could into 6/24; they cut the so-called fat. Can you say weapons
specialist Jim Moyer? Out the door. That's the equivalent of kicking the anesthesiologist out of the operating room after a
20-hour surgery. Of course, hindsight is 20/20, isn't it? And they had already filmed some awesome shoot-em-up scenes
without incident, had they not? And nothing bad ever happens doing that stuff, anyway, right? Just ask Jon-Erik Hexum
and Vic Morrow. If You fail to remember the past it is doomed to be repeated.
On Tuesday, March 30, at 8 p.m., day 50, the cast and crew were on stage 4, at Carolco Studios., to film the murder scene. In the comic book, Eric and Shelly are murdered on the roadside by a
gang of hopped-up junkies; in the screenplay, the lovers were to be murdered in their loft. They rehearsed the scene a couple of times, then it was time to shoot.
Wednesday, March 31, 1993, shortly after midnight, wearing a leather jacket, snug velvet pants, black boots, and a tee with his character's rock band, Hangman's Joke, emblazoned on the front,
carrying a grocery bag with a blood squib inside, Brandon Bruce
Lee as Eric Draven opens the prop door, steps into the loft set, before the rolling cameras. Michael Massee's character Funboy, who is raping Shelly, whirls, waves and aims a .44 Magnum prop
revolver at Eric, and pulls the trigger. Boom! The squib discharges, splattering fake blood and milk from a carton inside the grocery bag. Eric grabs his stomach, spins around, and slides down to
sit on the floor, with his back against a corner of the wall. This is not the way they had rehearsed the scene, but everyone thought Brandon had just changed things on the spur of the moment, as he
often did. Director Proyas yelled "Cut!" But Brandon did not get up. Everyone thought he was pulling a prank, as he often did. And the cast and crew went on filming. Diorama
carrying a grocery bag with a blood squib inside, Brandon Bruce
Lee as Eric Draven opens the prop door, steps into the loft set, before the rolling cameras. Michael Massee's character Funboy, who is raping Shelly, whirls, waves and aims a .44 Magnum prop
revolver at Eric, and pulls the trigger. Boom! The squib discharges, splattering fake blood and milk from a carton inside the grocery bag. Eric grabs his stomach, spins around, and slides down to
sit on the floor, with his back against a corner of the wall. This is not the way they had rehearsed the scene, but everyone thought Brandon had just changed things on the spur of the moment, as he
often did. Director Proyas yelled "Cut!" But Brandon did not get up. Everyone thought he was pulling a prank, as he often did. And the cast and crew went on filming. Diorama
1: The Curse of the Dragon
His name was Lee Hoi Chuen, a famous Hong Kong actor with the Cantonese Opera Company in Hong Kong. No one remembers, or is saying, when or why--if it is even true-- but sometime or
other Lee Hoi Chuen angered a group of Chinese merchants, who lashed out with a curse. One by one, each Lee male would die young. I can only image how this must have affected Lee Hoi
Chuen, but he got on with his life. He married Grace, a Catholic of German-Chinese blood. They lived in a tiny apartment in the Kowloon section of the Island. Kowloon is Chinese for Pond of the
Nine Dragons, and the dragon would shadow the son who was to become an international actor and martial arts legend. But first there was the other son, the infant male child who died soon after
birth.
His name was Lee Hoi Chuen, a famous Hong Kong actor with the Cantonese Opera Company in Hong Kong. No one remembers, or is saying, when or why--if it is even true-- but sometime or
other Lee Hoi Chuen angered a group of Chinese merchants, who lashed out with a curse. One by one, each Lee male would die young. I can only image how this must have affected Lee Hoi
Chuen, but he got on with his life. He married Grace, a Catholic of German-Chinese blood. They lived in a tiny apartment in the Kowloon section of the Island. Kowloon is Chinese for Pond of the
Nine Dragons, and the dragon would shadow the son who was to become an international actor and martial arts legend. But first there was the other son, the infant male child who died soon after
birth.
On November 27, 1940, while his acting group was performing in San Francisco, Lee and Grace became the proud parents of a second
son. They named him Lee Jun Fan and a nurse added a Christian name. At home, they called him Sai Fon, a female name to trick the evil spirits into thinking he was a her, thus leaving the
babe alone. We know him as Bruce Lee, the greatest martial artist who has ever lived, and the likes of him we shall never see again.
son. They named him Lee Jun Fan and a nurse added a Christian name. At home, they called him Sai Fon, a female name to trick the evil spirits into thinking he was a her, thus leaving the
babe alone. We know him as Bruce Lee, the greatest martial artist who has ever lived, and the likes of him we shall never see again.
He was born in the Year of the Dragon, in the Hour of the Dragon, grew up perhaps in the shadow of a dragon's curse, in the Pond of the Nine Dragons--Kowloon, and had just completed Enter
The Dragon when he exited this earth.
Someone has said Bruce had the luck of the Dragon, but that came with a price.
It has been said that Bruce Lee claimed a 4th dimensional demon followed him about all of his life, appearing to
him in a dream with a death omen--he would die at 32, exactly half the age that his father Lee Hoi Chuen died.
And he did, didn't he? The scene in Enter the Dragon where Bruce is fighting the demon in front of the mirrors is
based on his struggle with the 4D entity, so said. Did this entity also stalk Brandon? What did Brandon have to
say about the Dragon's curse? That depends on whom you ask. He reportedly believed the curse, but others say
he went on Johnny Carson and said it was all hype. Whatever the truth is, something seemed most def afoot in
the Lee family.
And speaking of dark spectres. I surfed onto a site called Brandon Lee's Watcher (no longer online)--a single page promoting the Illuminati theory. The webmaster, Leon, claims to have seen
something strange on Rapid Fire. In a scene, a building, Jake Lo, while under fire, does a flip from the floor, and Leon says you can see the reflection of a dark, headless entity sitting in the
background. What is more, it also appears on The Crow in a scene where the camera is panning the buildings. I checked it out both and I saw absolutely nothing strange, babydoll, except Myca's
lips. That's not to say Leon didn't see what he claimed to see. Check it out, and if you see what he saw, for God's sake let me know, please!
Can't be too hard on old Leon, I may have seen something strange years ago myself. I'm deaf, that doesn't make for enjoyable movie going. So I waited with baited breath for The Crow to come
out on video and I went digging it down to Blockbuster and rented the VHS, which was the only version available at the time. Now, we have all been told that the shot you hear during the loft scene
was probably the one fired when Brandon was killed, but the death scene does not appear in the movie. All right, I was sitting there on the couch watching when Eric Draven walked through the loft
door, holding the grocery sack; he was shot and fell to the floor. Didn't think anything at all about it. Time passed and I bought my own copy--VHS--at Turtles, and was surprised to see that
particular scene was not on it. Why?
The Dragon when he exited this earth.
Someone has said Bruce had the luck of the Dragon, but that came with a price.
It has been said that Bruce Lee claimed a 4th dimensional demon followed him about all of his life, appearing to
him in a dream with a death omen--he would die at 32, exactly half the age that his father Lee Hoi Chuen died.
And he did, didn't he? The scene in Enter the Dragon where Bruce is fighting the demon in front of the mirrors is
based on his struggle with the 4D entity, so said. Did this entity also stalk Brandon? What did Brandon have to
say about the Dragon's curse? That depends on whom you ask. He reportedly believed the curse, but others say
he went on Johnny Carson and said it was all hype. Whatever the truth is, something seemed most def afoot in
the Lee family.
And speaking of dark spectres. I surfed onto a site called Brandon Lee's Watcher (no longer online)--a single page promoting the Illuminati theory. The webmaster, Leon, claims to have seen
something strange on Rapid Fire. In a scene, a building, Jake Lo, while under fire, does a flip from the floor, and Leon says you can see the reflection of a dark, headless entity sitting in the
background. What is more, it also appears on The Crow in a scene where the camera is panning the buildings. I checked it out both and I saw absolutely nothing strange, babydoll, except Myca's
lips. That's not to say Leon didn't see what he claimed to see. Check it out, and if you see what he saw, for God's sake let me know, please!
Can't be too hard on old Leon, I may have seen something strange years ago myself. I'm deaf, that doesn't make for enjoyable movie going. So I waited with baited breath for The Crow to come
out on video and I went digging it down to Blockbuster and rented the VHS, which was the only version available at the time. Now, we have all been told that the shot you hear during the loft scene
was probably the one fired when Brandon was killed, but the death scene does not appear in the movie. All right, I was sitting there on the couch watching when Eric Draven walked through the loft
door, holding the grocery sack; he was shot and fell to the floor. Didn't think anything at all about it. Time passed and I bought my own copy--VHS--at Turtles, and was surprised to see that
particular scene was not on it. Why?
On July 20, 1973, Bruce Lee was going over the Game of Death story in the apartment of actress Betty Ting Pei. When he complained of a bad headache,
she gave him Equegsia, a super aspirin, and he lay down and went to sleep and never woke up. What few people know is this was not the first time Bruce
Lee had gotten a bad headache and went into a coma. Just that May before he died, Bruce collapsed in the bathroom at the Hong Kong studio where he was
editing the finishing scenes of Enter the Dragon. Doctors were able to revive him. The cause for the May incident was also the official cause of death in
July: brain edema, which is when the brain swells against the skull, and is almost always fatal.
Was it the curse in action--the dragon roaring? Or merely coincidence? I don't know, no one ever will, but I do know one thing. I do not believe in
coincident. Everything that happens is due to cause and affect.
Brandon Lee wanted to be an actor, but he did not want to follow in the footsteps of his father, but he did, in almost every way.
and The Crow. Most people believe that Bruce made the same number of films. This is not true. Bruce made
just four films: Fists of Fury, The Chinese Connection, Return of the Dragon, Enter The Dragon.
Game of Death was not the fifth movie. According to Skorps of the Brandon and Bruce Lee Forum, Bruce
had begun GOD when he was offered Enter the Dragon, which was to be the very first martial arts movie filmed
in Hollywood. So, because ETD meant his dream of breaking into Hollywood mainstream would come true, he shelved the GOD footage for when ETD
wrapped. Unfortunately, he did not live to finish Game of Death.
When Brandon died during filming of The Crow, the Computer Generated Imaging technology (CGI) was
available to insert his image into the movie, and having filmed most of his scenes before he was shot dead, The
Crow can most def be called his last movie. But that CGI technology wasn't available during the time of Game of
Death. The GOD production company used the shelved footage--about 12 minutes of it--a Bruce Lee lookalike,
and cobbled scenes from his other movies to make GOD, and this makes GOD ineligible to be called Bruce's fifth
and last movie. Thanks Skorps!
According to Sam of the Brandon Lee Movement, Brandon Lee said in an interview that his dad had shot
only about 15 minutes of Game of Death when he shelved it. This is what Brandon said about Game of Death:
she gave him Equegsia, a super aspirin, and he lay down and went to sleep and never woke up. What few people know is this was not the first time Bruce
Lee had gotten a bad headache and went into a coma. Just that May before he died, Bruce collapsed in the bathroom at the Hong Kong studio where he was
editing the finishing scenes of Enter the Dragon. Doctors were able to revive him. The cause for the May incident was also the official cause of death in
July: brain edema, which is when the brain swells against the skull, and is almost always fatal.
Was it the curse in action--the dragon roaring? Or merely coincidence? I don't know, no one ever will, but I do know one thing. I do not believe in
coincident. Everything that happens is due to cause and affect.
Brandon Lee wanted to be an actor, but he did not want to follow in the footsteps of his father, but he did, in almost every way.
- In 1970c Bruce went to Hong Kong to jump-start his movie career
- In 1986, Brandon Lee went to Hong Kong to jump-start his movie career
- Bruce had a short TV career: The Green Hornet, Ironside, Longstreet, Batman
- Ditto Brandon: Kung Fu: the Movie; Kung Fu: the Next Generation, O'Hara
- Bruce died of brain edema due to allergic reaction to a super aspirin
- Brandon died of gunshot fired from a prop gun
- Bruce supposedly foretold his own death
- Ditto Brandon
- Bruce died in 1973 before his greatest movie, Enter the Dragon, was released, at the brink of superstardom
- Ditto Brandon, who died in 1993, before his final and greatest movie, The Crow, was released, at the brink of superstardom, almost exactly 20
years after his dad's death
- Bruce did not live to finish Game of Death
- Brandon did not live to finish The Crow
and The Crow. Most people believe that Bruce made the same number of films. This is not true. Bruce made
just four films: Fists of Fury, The Chinese Connection, Return of the Dragon, Enter The Dragon.
Game of Death was not the fifth movie. According to Skorps of the Brandon and Bruce Lee Forum, Bruce
had begun GOD when he was offered Enter the Dragon, which was to be the very first martial arts movie filmed
in Hollywood. So, because ETD meant his dream of breaking into Hollywood mainstream would come true, he shelved the GOD footage for when ETD
wrapped. Unfortunately, he did not live to finish Game of Death.
When Brandon died during filming of The Crow, the Computer Generated Imaging technology (CGI) was
available to insert his image into the movie, and having filmed most of his scenes before he was shot dead, The
Crow can most def be called his last movie. But that CGI technology wasn't available during the time of Game of
Death. The GOD production company used the shelved footage--about 12 minutes of it--a Bruce Lee lookalike,
and cobbled scenes from his other movies to make GOD, and this makes GOD ineligible to be called Bruce's fifth
and last movie. Thanks Skorps!
According to Sam of the Brandon Lee Movement, Brandon Lee said in an interview that his dad had shot
only about 15 minutes of Game of Death when he shelved it. This is what Brandon said about Game of Death:
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