8 Mind-Blowing Movie Coincidences You Won't Believe Actually Happened

3. Brandon Lee's Death Is Predicted By His Father's Last Movie - Game Of Death/The Crow

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Everybody knows that kung-fu legend Bruce Lee died during the making of his last movie, Game of Death, and if you didn't know that... well, you do now. Left with a half-finished flick and hankering for the profits, the movie's producers opted not to throw it out (which would have been far easier), but to try and mould it into something resembling a finished product, which they kind of achieved using stand-ins and, uh, including footage of Bruce Lee whilst he was dead and lying in his coffin. Seriously. The '70s was a different time.

Game of Death, by the way, is based around a storyline that has Bruce Lee playing an actor in a movie. The climatic scene in the movie comes when Lee's character is shot using a prop gun that actually turns out to be loaded. Where have you heard something like that before, you say?

Whilst shooting The Crow, Lee's son, Brandon, was accidentally killed when a prop gun mistakenly fired. How many other movies do you know that involve a storyline about a prop gun misfiring? "None," is the answer. A truly bizarre, horrible coincidence, if ever there was one.

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