The film was released posthumously after a stunt double and special effects were used to complete the film. Brandon Lee was born in Oakland, California, the son of martial artist and actor Bruce Lee and Linda Emery.
The family moved to Los Angeles, California when he was three months old, but they spent some of his early years in Hong Kong as well. When Brandon was eight, his father died suddenly from cerebral edema. After his father's death, his family (including his younger sister, Shannon Lee, born April 19, 1969) moved back to the United States. They lived briefly in his mother's hometown of Seattle, Washington, and then in Los Angeles, where Lee grew up in the affluent area of Rolling Hills.
