10 Incredible Casting Coincidences You Won't Believe

4. Bruce Lee's Final Movie Foreshadows The Death Of His Son Brandon

Bruce_Lee_game-of-death-600x300 Bruce Lee's final movie, Game of Death, was released in 1978, five years after he died, cobbled together from a combination of filmed footage, doubles, and even clips from the actor's actual funeral. Things get weird(er) when a scene occurs in which a prop gun is fired at Lee's character, wounding his face, and boy, doesn't this just sound kinda familiar? Lee's son, Brandon Lee, was infamously killed on the set of what would have been his breakout movie, The Crow, when a prop gun was misloaded and fired a shard into Lee's chest. Now, you first have to ask yourself how common movie plots are about prop guns misfiring, and off the top of my head, I can't think of a single one. That the same thing happened to Lee in real life, and that his father died on the very movie where he previously enacted this, is seriously eerie. Though rumours will forever abound that both Lees were killed by the Triads or possibly a family curse, it's just one of those down-right creepy coincidences that easily courts the usual parade of conspiracy loons.
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