Brandon Lee 1990s, he started to work with major Hollywood studios starring in "Showdown in Little Tokyo" (1991) and "Rapid Fire" (1992). In 1992, he landed his breakthrough role as Eric Draven in "The Crow", based on the comic book of the same name which would be his final film. On March 31, 1993, only days away from completing the film, Lee died on the set of "The Crow" after being shot by a faulty prop gun which fired the tip of a dummy round which was accidentally lodged in the chamber. The film was completed by re-writing the script, CGI, and
Brandon Paris Richard Lee to Brandon Paris in 1998 as he believed it was like starting life all over and a way of leaving all the evils in his past behind. He chose "Brandon" as his first name because of his most loved actor and martial artist Bruce Lee, whose son was named Brandon. he chose the well known city "Paris" as his last name because he felt it was more marketable and thought it would be much too hard to market a popular, unoriginal Chinese last name "Lee". Brandon also changed his appearance by losing 126 lb (from down to ).