Celebrity Deaths (updated weekly)

Planet-man said:
What is it about guys in their twenties playing cut-mouthed comic characters and dying of drug overdoses before the movie comes out?
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Wasn't Brandon Lee shot during a stunt on set?
 
SSJmole said:
Wasn't Brandon Lee shot during a stunt on set?
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I heard two different versions, one was a freak accident shrapnel from one of the explosions. The other I heard was the climax scene where he enters the room full of mobsters and they all shoot at him (but he's invicible). On the set they were firing blanks, but someone replaced one of the guns ammo with live, so that when the mobsters shot - one of them really shot him.

Anyone know about that? it was just a guy in a pub told me

I don't know any of Brandon Lee's work apart from the Crow either. It's a real shame when these people play one part in a film that I really like but die so soon after - Brandon never knew how succesful the film was, I'm not sure he would've predicted it.
 
This is insane. And I feel bad for immediately thinking about what they're going to do with the Joker now... :(

He seemed like a good guy. Damn.

Apparently he was found naked in Mary Kate Olsen's bedroom? What the hell is this?
 
Ninja4peace said:
I heard two different versions, one was a freak accident shrapnel from one of the explosions. The other I heard was the climax scene where he enters the room full of mobsters and they all shoot at him (but he's invicible). On the set they were firing blanks, but someone replaced one of the guns ammo with live, so that when the mobsters shot - one of them really shot him.

Anyone know about that? it was just a guy in a pub told me

I don't know any of Brandon Lee's work apart from the Crow either. It's a real shame when these people play one part in a film that I really like but die so soon after - Brandon never knew how succesful the film was, I'm not sure he would've predicted it.
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On March 31, 1993, the film crew filmed a scene in which Lee's character walked into his apartment and discovered his girlfriend being raped by thugs. Actor Michael Massee, who played one of the film's villains, 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 (cartridges that outwardly appear to be functional, but contain no gunpowder) would be made from real cartridges. A cartridge with only a primer and a bullet was fired in the pistol prior to the scene. It caused a squib load, in which the primer provided enough force to push the bullet out of the cartridge and into the barrel of the revolver, where it became stuck.

The malfunction went unnoticed by the crew, and the same gun was used again later to shoot the death scene, having been re-loaded with blanks. Nevertheless, the squib load was still lodged in the barrel, and was propelled by the blank cartridge's explosion out of the barrel and into Lee's body. Although the bullet was traveling much slower than a normally fired bullet would be, the bullet's large size and the extremely short firing distance made it powerful enough to fatally wound Lee.

When the blank was fired, the bullet shot out and hit Lee in the abdomen. He fell down instantly and the director shouted "Cut!", but Lee did not respond. The cast and crew filming rushed to him and noticed he was wounded. He was immediately rushed to the hospital where the doctors tried to revive him for five hours. It was too late however, and he was pronounced dead at 1:03pm.
 
Ultimate Warrior said:
On March 31, 1993, the film crew filmed a scene in which Lee's character walked into his apartment and discovered his girlfriend being raped by thugs. Actor Michael Massee, who played one of the film's villains, 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 (cartridges that outwardly appear to be functional, but contain no gunpowder) would be made from real cartridges. A cartridge with only a primer and a bullet was fired in the pistol prior to the scene. It caused a squib load, in which the primer provided enough force to push the bullet out of the cartridge and into the barrel of the revolver, where it became stuck.

The malfunction went unnoticed by the crew, and the same gun was used again later to shoot the death scene, having been re-loaded with blanks. Nevertheless, the squib load was still lodged in the barrel, and was propelled by the blank cartridge's explosion out of the barrel and into Lee's body. Although the bullet was traveling much slower than a normally fired bullet would be, the bullet's large size and the extremely short firing distance made it powerful enough to fatally wound Lee.

When the blank was fired, the bullet shot out and hit Lee in the abdomen. He fell down instantly and the director shouted "Cut!", but Lee did not respond. The cast and crew filming rushed to him and noticed he was wounded. He was immediately rushed to the hospital where the doctors tried to revive him for five hours. It was too late however, and he was pronounced dead at 1:03pm.
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Oh Ok, so it wasn't someone trying to kill him or anything, still a terrible shame
 
with most "hard" drugs (like, say heroin), if you use them in a certain pattern, i.e. at a certain place regularly, your body becomes accustomed to the location and your tolerance goes up. If, then, after you are a practicing drug user with a raised tolerance due to regular practice and conditioning, and you try to use the same amount of drugs, you will likely overdose as your body is not used to its surroundings.

EDIT: apparently it was sleeping pills.
 
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Jesus Christ....How does this happen? He was only 28. He had so much going for him. I just can't believe this.
 
Well this is overwhelmingly upsetting. I'm not gonna lie, I found out about this at the end of my play rehearsal, stayed calm on the ride from school to my house, and then quietly cried for a few minutes at my place in the dining room.

Rest In Peace, Heath Ledger. :cry:
 
This is so ****ing strange.

My cynicism makes me wonder if it's a stunt hoax thing.

So ****ing strange. The film's not even out and the man is dead. So ****ing strange.
 
.................and Doom says meh.




I'm serious.



I mean it sucks that he's gone, but him dying and the local garbage man dying is no different. The only difference is the fact that he was an average actor who made 1 really good film.


I really don't care. Call me cold-hearted. Call me an *******. Whatever. I refuse to care about some random celebrity.
 
Victor Von Doom said:
.................and Doom says meh.




I'm serious.



I mean it sucks that he's gone, but him dying and the local garbage man dying is no different. The only difference is the fact that he was an average actor who made 1 really good film.


I really don't care. Call me cold-hearted. Call me an *******. Whatever. I refuse to care about some random celebrity.
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Oh I'm with you, I'm more concerned with the movie's status than his death. Very rarely am I really emotionally effected by anyone's death (only cried at my dad's death, and my girlfriend [not the current one, this was a few years back]).
 
Victor Von Doom said:
I really don't care. Call me cold-hearted. Call me an *******. Whatever. I refuse to care about some random celebrity.
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I care to the extent that I've liked a handful of movies he's done and it seemed like he'd be making a bunch more really good ones, but otherwise you're right. My first thought was about The Dark Knight and it's still my primary concern.

I wish he wasn't dead, but that's just a selfish wish and not any greta concern for his family or aything.
 
I care more that his poor daughter is going to grow up without her dad, and is old enough to maybe even know what's going on - and if she isn't, I'm sure she sees that her family around her is sad.
 
E said:
I care more that his poor daughter is going to grow up without her dad, and is old enough to maybe even know what's going on - and if she isn't, I'm sure she sees that her family around her is sad.
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If I did care, that's what I would care most about.
 
You know, who else it REALLY sucks for (other than his friends, family, and fans obviously), is Terry Gilliam. HL was in the middle of filming a movie for him called "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus". Terry Gilliam might just throw in the towel on his career at this point.

He was shooting this awesome adaptation of Don Quixote with Johnny Depp in it (not as Quixote) that was so plagued with problems the production had to be shut down two weeks into filming. There's a great documentary about it called "Lost in La Mancha" with some footage from the doomed production.
 
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