2. Iron Man 3, Air Force One rescue
We all heard about Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man. The armored superhero goes through the sky in pursuit of the Air Force One’s passengers that have just been sucked out of a gaping hole in the side of the presidential aircraft.
He makes his way towards the others as Air Force Once explodes dramatically in the skies above.
The scene took as much planning as you might think, involving a group of the best skydivers in the world.
Producers hired a team of Red Bull skydivers to pose as the free-falling civilians, with one of them wearing a red and gold jumpsuit posing as Iron Man that would be filled in with CG later on.
A good part of the scene was filmed in real, free-fall live action with one of the skydiving team even acting as cameraman, a unit mounted to his helmet.
All that live stunt action, accompanied with top of the line CG effects, doesn’t come cheap; At the end of production, Iron Man 3 cost a reported $300 million to produce.
