Before Bill Skarsgård smeared on Eric Draven’s sinister black and white face paint, a burgeoning Brandon Lee embodied the resurrected superhero at the center of James O'Barr’s comic.

Brandon was just eight years old when his father died from cerebral edema in 1973, mere months after the release of “Enter the Dragon” turned him into a global icon. He was 32. His mother ...

[‘The Crow’] is not just a movie. Brandon Lee died making it, and it was finished as a testament to his lost brilliance and tragic loss. It is his legacy. That’s how it should remain.

To quote one profiler’s words back in 1992, he was “the hunky heir.” Brandon Lee’s athleticism made him a natural fit for the martial arts-forward roles that got his foot in Hollywood’s ...