From Wondery, I'm Lundy, I'm Lindsay Graham, and this is American Scandal. In July 192, the Santa Clarita Hills were the backdrop for one of the most devastating tragedies in Hollywood history.

31-year-old director John Landis was filming a segment for Twilight Zone the movie,

an anthology picture executed produced by Steven Spielberg.

But what should have been a night of movie magic ended in disaster when a helicopter crashed on set and killed three

actors. The deaths of Vic Morrow and the two young children Renee Chen and Mika Din Lee were an

avoidable tragedy. But in the aftermath, it wasn't only the decisions and conduct of Landis

and the other filmmakers that fell under the microscope. There was intense scrutiny on the wider Hollywood culture that had allowed such a terrible

thing to happen.

My guest today are Chris Winterbauer and Lizzie Bassett Ballman.

They're the creators and hosts of the What Went Wrong podcast, which details the real-life

drama behind some of Hollywood's biggest movies.

Our conversation is next.

Chris, Lizzie, welcome to American Scandal.

Thank you so much for having us.

We are thrilled to be here.

So in our most recent series, we've been talking about the tragic deaths on the set of

Twilight Zone the movie.

Sadly, though, those are far from the only fatalities that have occurred while making a movie.

One of the most notorious, I suppose, is the death of Brandon Lee on The Crow, which

happened about 11 years after the Twilight Zone accident.

So let's start there.

Tell us what you know about how this tragedy happened.

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