What was the controversy behind Brandon Lee's death?

Question

I know how he died, but what was the 'conspiracy' behind his death?

Answer 1

The way I heard it was:

Bruce Lee was condemned by the martial arts community back home, because he was giving westerners secret martial arts knowledge that had been passed down for generations. Following that he makes a hollywood career making movies that some felt trivialized their traditions. They were mad enough to kill him and his son over this.

No one knows how the gun that killed Brandon got loaded, but a lot of people think someone did it because of his father. I don't think any part of this story has been confirmed in any way.

Answer 2

Brandon Lee Death

Answer 3

When Brandon was eight, his father died suddenly from a cerebral edema.
The shooting was ruled as an accident, although many fans suspected foul play. (Bruce Lee's own death in 1973, at the age of 32, apparently from a reaction to an analgesic he had taken, was also considered suspicious.) Bruce Lee's character in the 1978 version of Game of Death is shot in a similar fashion. His character, like that of his son in The Crow, returns from the dead to get revenge on his adversaries.

Some fans also suspected that Lee's death was all part of a curse on the Lee family because Lee had died 20 years after his father; both deaths were very mysterious, and Brandon would also die before the release of a film that would catapult him to stardom.

Answer 4

Lee in his final film The Crow (1994), the film which he was filming when he diedOn March 31, 1993, the 52nd day of a 60-day shooting schedule for The Crow, the scene being filmed involved Lee's character 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, who played one of the villains named Funboy in the movie, 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 — bullets that outwardly appear to be functional, but contain no gunpowder — would be made from real cartridges, which had been brought to the set earlier in production. Bruce Merlin, an effects technician, dismantled the live cartridges by removing the bullets, emptying out the gunpowder, detonating the primer and reinserting the bullets. This rendered the cartridges inoperative but realistic in appearance. Merlin and his propmaster, Daniel Kuttner, took initiative to create some blanks by removing live cartridges and replacing the gunpowder with firework powder; the bullets were not reinserted.

Later, a cartridge with only a primer and a bullet was fired in a pistol; this caused the bullet to lodge in the forcing cone of the revolver. When the first unit used this gun to shoot the 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 severely wounded as cameras were rolling at the Carolco Studios in Wilmington, North Carolina. Seconds later, director Alex Proyas stopped the scene, but Lee remained on the floor. Stuntman (and Lee's friend) Jeff Imada ran over to him with a paramedic, and discovered a thin slit an inch below to the right of his navel. By this time, Lee had slipped into unconsciousness and was rushed to the hospital where doctors discovered that a bullet was the cause of the damage. They fought for five hours in an attempt to save him, but at 1:04 PM he was pronounced dead at the age of 28.

His funeral was held several days later; he was buried next to his father in Lake View Cemetery, Capitol Hill, Seattle, Washington. The following day, a memorial service was held in Los Angeles, California, at the home of actress Polly Bergen; over 200 people attended, including David Carradine, David Hasselhoff and Kiefer Sutherland. Jeff Imada, Lee's closest friend; and Eliza ('Lisa') Hutton, Lee's intended bride, were so shocked they couldn't speak, while his mother, Linda Emery, reminded everyone, "Brandon would want this to be a happy occasion; we are here to celebrate his life."

The footage of the incident was soon destroyed without ever being developed.

The shooting was ruled as an accident, although many fans suspected foul play. (Bruce Lee's own death in 1973, at the age of 32, apparently from a reaction to an analgesic he had taken, was also considered suspicious.) Bruce Lee's character in the 1978 version of Game of Death is shot in a similar fashion. His character, like that of his son in The Crow, returns from the dead to get revenge on his adversaries.

Some fans also suspected that Lee's death was all part of a curse on the Lee family because Lee had died 20 years after his father; both deaths were very mysterious, and Brandon would also die before the release of a film that would catapult him to stardom. After his death, his fiancée Eliza Hutton and his mother supported director Alex Proyas' decision to complete the movie. At the time of Lee's death, only eight days were left before completion of the movie. A majority of the film had already been completed with Lee and only a few scenes had to be done.

To complete the film, a stunt double (Chad Stahelski), who was a friend of Lee's at the famed Inosanto Academy, and special effects were used to add Lee's face onto the stunt double. Another stunt double named Jeff Cadiente was also used to complete the movie (Cadiente was already Brandon Lee's stunt double on The Crow and they were also good friends).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Lee

Answer 5

There was no conspiracy. There are simply people with nothing to do who like to make up things and conspiracy theories.