Brandon Lee

The life of Bruce Lee's only son, Brandon, is like a bright meteorite. Brandon Lee's biography was short. The actor died tragically in his prime, on takeoff - at the age of 28. The mystery of his death, as well as the death of his father, still worries the minds of fans.

Brandon Bruce Lee was born in February 1965 in Oakland, California. The boy mixed the Chinese-German blood of his father and the Anglo-Swedish mother.

When Brandon was 3 months old, his parents - Bruce Lee and Linda Emery - moved to Los Angeles. But here the family stayed only for 6 years. 2 years after the birth of their daughter Shannon, in 1971, it was decided to move to Hong Kong. Here Brandon Lee went to the school his father had once attended. The boy learned Chinese. More precisely, he mastered the prestigious Cantonese dialect.

Bruce Lee's children were forced to go to school, accompanied by bodyguards: parents tried to protect their son and daughter from possible abduction. Brandon Lee started martial arts early. At the age of 5, the boy walked on his arms and in a jump could reach his father's shoulder. Bruce taught Brandon the art of kung fu according to his own system - Jeet Kune Do.

Father died when Brandon Lee was 8 years old. Mother decided to leave Hong Kong and moved to America with her children. First, the orphaned family moved to Seattle, but soon settled in California. When Brandon grew up, he went to study at the military art school - the IMB Academy in Los Angeles. It was run by Bruce Lee's students Dan Inosanto and Richard Bustillo. But the training system in the United States was strikingly different from the Chinese. Brandon almost got kicked out for bad behavior.

At school, Brandon Lee became interested in acting on stage. Several times the young man stepped onto the stage of small theaters. This passion turned out to be defining when Lee graduated from high school. Brandon attended Emerson College, Boston, where he studied acting. Brandon's fellow students remembered him as a gloomy young man, withdrawn and even aggressive. The young man constantly wore a black bandana, a worn denim suit and rough boots.

After graduating from college, Brandon Lee attended the famous Lee Strasberg Institute in New York, where he took acting lessons for some time.

When Brandon got tired of performing on the stages of small theaters on the outskirts of New York, he decided to break into Hollywood. But there the young man was greeted only as the son of a star. The first proposed role is to play your father in a biographical picture. Brandon Lee refused. The young man dreamed of his own path and did not want to stay in the niche that his father had once occupied. But the proposed roles seemed to have been "written off" from those previously played by Bruce. In the mid-1980s, Brandon appeared in the films Crime Assassin and Kung Fu: The Movie. But these projects did not bring either success or fame.

The young actor was disappointed and left the "dream factory". Brandon went to China. Here the artist was immediately offered to play the main character in the film "The Substitute". The debut was successful. Chinese moviegoers warmly accepted the film, after which the actor returned to Hollywood. Lee starred in several TV series, but the result was not satisfactory.

The long-awaited breakthrough in the artist's filmography happened in the early 1990s. The action film Showdown in Little Tokyo, in which Brandon Lee appeared with Dolph Lundgren, brought the actor fame. The artists reincarnated as police partners who, with difficulty, found a common language. During the investigation into the murder of the dancer, law enforcement officers go on the trail of the Japanese mafia clan, in whose leader the hero of Lundgren recognizes the killer of his parents.

The next film, "Rapid Fire," consolidated the success. The actor appeared on the screen in the image of a student who witnesses gangster squabbles, and the hunt begins for him. But since the young man is fond of martial arts, it is not easy for the criminals to destroy him. In addition, an honest policeman played by Powers Booth comes to the aid of Brandon Lee's hero.

The Crow, an adaptation of the graphic novel by James O'Barr, was to make Brandon Lee as big a star as his famous father. The actor was invited to play Eric Draven, for which River Phoenix and Christian Slater also auditioned. But Brandon Lee seemed to the directors more convincing than other contenders.

The young artist pinned great hopes on this gloomy "gothic" project. And these hopes were justified. But posthumously. After the release of the film, the film rightfully received the title of cult due to the many visual effects, action scenes and professional acting.

In 1990, Brandon Lee met with assistant director Eliza Hutton.

The romance that broke out lasted 2 years and was about to be crowned with marriage. Brandon Lee's personal life developed according to a happy scenario. Finally, there was a breakthrough in my career. There was a loved one nearby. But the planned wedding was never played: the artist died 2 weeks before the wedding.

The filming of the Raven project started on the actor's birthday - February 1, 1993. On March 31, at night, the irreparable happened. In the final scene, Brandon Lee's character was fatally shot from a 44-caliber revolver. Actor Michael Massy, ​​who played the villainous Fanboy, shot Lee with a blank. But there was a plug in the barrel, which the technicians did not notice. The plug pierced the belly and got stuck in the spine. Later, the footage showing the murder of the actor was destroyed, and the scene was re-shot with a stunt double.

From profuse bleeding, which the surgeon could not stop, Brandon died 12 hours after the shot. Death occurred on March 31, 1993 at Wilmington Hospital.

Brandon Lee was buried next to his father in Seattle in Lake View Cemetery, in the place that Linda Emery had planned to keep for herself.

Until now, on Instagram, photos of Brandon Lee in the image of the protagonist of the project "The Raven" are popular among his fans. The film was completed without the participation of the artist. The scenes with Brandon have been CGI finalized.

The murder of Brandon through negligence excites the minds of the actor's fans. Questions are raised by the facts that the artist was not given a bulletproof vest, while the partner shot not in the direction, but at Brandon. In addition, there was no weapons specialist on site.

In 2018, it is planned to begin work on a remake of the film "The Raven", the rights to which were purchased by Sony Pictures. They tried to start filming for the last decade, but each time the film companies faced problems. Most often, the difficulties were caused by the frequent change of performers of the main roles. Bradley Cooper, Luke Evans and Mark Wahlberg auditioned for the role of Brandon Lee's character.

In the current project, Jason Momoa will play the main character, and John Spates and Corinne Hardy will act as screenwriters and directors. The first scenes will begin filming in the Hungarian capital in the summer of 2018. The plot of the original film will be slightly changed, new characters will be introduced. The premiere of the picture will take place in the fall of 2019.

The new project has opponents, for example, the director of the 1994 film The Raven, Alex Proyas. In his opinion, the film should not be repeated, the original should be kept intact in memory of Brandon Lee.

1985 - "Crime Killer" 1986 - "Kung Fu: The Movie" 1986 - "Framed" 1987-1989 - "O'Hara" 1990 - "Operation Laser" 1991 - "Showdown in Little Tokyo" 1992 - "Rapid Fire" 1994 - The Raven

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Brandon Lee Net Worth 2021

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Brandon Lee Net Worth 2020

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Brandon Lee Net Worth 2019

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Brandon Lee Net Worth 2018

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Brandon Lee Net Worth 2017

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Brandon Lee Net Worth 2016

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Brandon Lee Net Worth 2015

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