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‘It was a horrific night’: 30 years on from the on-set death of Brandon Lee

The actor was killed in a freak accident on the set of The Crow, a tragedy that still haunts those who worked alongside

Less than an hour later Lee, a 28-year-old actor, was accidentally shot in the abdomen while filming a scene for The Crow, a movie developed and produced by Most, directed by Alex Proyas and released 30 years ago this week. Hopes that on-set health and safety have so improved that such a tragedy could never happen again were dashed in 2021 when, during production of the western film Rust in New Mexico, the actor Alec Baldwin was rehearsing with a revolver when it fired a live round, killing the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Late at night, filming one of the final scenes, actor Michael Massee, who played drug dealer Funboy, pulled the trigger on a prop gun aimed at Lee, who was 15-20 feet away.

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