TRUE CRIME
The Sad Circumstances of Brandon Lee’s Death
How the Crow died
Brandon Lee was the biggest prodigy of the 90s in the film industry. He was only 28 years old when he died during the shooting of The Crow. The circumstances of his death were labeled mysterious at the time and remained one of the most targeted topics by conspiracy theorists.
However, the reason for Lee’s death was much simpler than the self-fabricated mystery wanted us to believe it.
Lee died on March 31 in 1993, and his death was followed by a two-month-long investigation, according to History. Eventually, the charges were dropped against the film studio with negligent homicide and foul play.
There had been several accidents during the film’s production that fed the later increased rumors and conspiracy theories. Luke Owen wrote in the Flickering Myth, “a carpenter suffered severe burns when a crane hit power lines, a disgruntled crew member drove their car into the back of the studio lot, and there was the infamous ‘storm of the century’ that swept through North Carolina on March 13th that destroyed the exterior sets.”
Of course, these unfortunate events added up after Lee’s death, but they were nothing more than little accidents and difficulties that weren’t rare at all during the shooting…
