Who pulled the trigger which Killed BRANDON LEE?!
Question:
Who pulled the trigger which Killed BRANDON LEE?
Does anyone know?
Answers:
Actor Michael Massee.
"On March 31, 1993, there were eight days left before the shooting schedule for The Crow was to be completed. The scene being filmed on this day involved Lee's character Eric Draven walking into his apartment and discovering his girlfriend being raped by thugs. This would subsequently lead to Eric being brutally killed, along with his girlfriend, by the thugs.
Actor Michael Massee, playing Funboy, one of the film's villains, was supposed to fire a gun at Lee as he walked into his apartment with groceries.
Because the movie's second unit team were running behind schedule, it was decided that dummy cartridges—cartridges that outwardly appear to be functional, but contain no gunpowder—would be made from real cartridges.
A cartridge with only a primer and a bullet was fired in the pistol prior to the scene Brandon was in, it caused a squib load, in which the primer provided enough force to push the bullet out of the cartridge and into the barrel of the revolver, where it became stuck.
The malfunction went unnoticed by the crew, and the same gun was used again later to shoot the death scene, having been re-loaded with blanks. However, the squib load was still lodged in the barrel, and was propelled by the blank cartridge's explosion out of the barrel and into Lee's body.
Although the bullet was traveling much slower than a normally fired bullet would be, the bullet's large size and the nearly point-blank firing distance made it powerful enough to mortally wound Lee. It was not instantly recognized by the crew or other actors; they believed he was still acting."
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""Massee has the unfortunate distinction of firing the accidentally loaded gun which killed Brandon Lee during filming of The Crow. The shooting was ruled an accident, and although there are some fans that suspected foul play, there is usually no criticism of Massee as being behind any alleged plot or having any knowledge of what was going on.""