After the death of Brandon Lee on the original ‘The Crow’ set, director Rupert Sanders vowed…..
Director Rupert Sanders made it clear in an interview with Variety that “safety is a number one priority.” He went on to say, “Movie sets may be really hazardous. There are swift moving automobiles with cranes lodged on top. Stunt performers are shown going down stairs and onto high wires. You are working in an industrial setting even if you are simply strolling around a set at night with lights and rain machines. Thus, it is risky. You must exercise caution.”
He so forbade actual firearms from being used on The Crow set. We did not have a single gun that could have ever had a live round or a blank round close to it, so no projectile could ever enter the set. I declared unequivocally, “We will have no shooting weapons on set.”
Entertainment Weekly reports that when an actor shot a gun during the filming of the first 1994 Crow, “Lee collapsed to the ground” with a “crew of between 75 and 100 people” watching. “No one realized Lee had been shot until the action concluded and he did not get up. One eyewitness stated, “It did not really seem like anything was wrong to the individuals on the set.”The 28-year-old actor, Brandon Lee, the son of Bruce Lee, died as a result of the firearm failure.
Even before filming started, Sanders, whose movie will be the sixth in the Crow series, was acutely aware of safety requirements. He told Variety, “They were really safety-conscious the first day I visited with the special effects department and the armorer, who was wonderful, in Prague. They handle guns according to all the same regulations as the military, but I did not even want to take that chance.
