Flight Suits Of Tomb Raider 2

USA Today talks about one of the more impressive stunts in Tomb Raider 2:

People actually fly in Lara Croft, Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, which opens this weekend. No cables. No camera tricks. No blue screens.

Just a weird yellow suit with silk sewn in between the legs and along the arms to create wings.

Director Jan De Bont was searching for an original escape scene for the Tomb Raider sequel when he came upon "a little tape of these two crazy Swedish sky divers ... who had done one jump from a mountain" in the wing suits they had designed. "I said, 'Can you guys jump from a building?' "

Croft (Angelina Jolie) and her sidekick, Terry Sheridan (Gerard Butler), reach the top of Hong Kong's Two International Finance Center skyscraper with the bad guys in pursuit. Their stand-ins, jumpers Per Eriksson and Martin Rosen, don the winged suits and jump off the building's 84th floor (1,000 feet high). The pair glide several miles between skyscrapers before they unleash a small parachute to land on a freighter in Victoria Harbor.

Eriksson and Rosen practiced for months and jumped 28 times from the building. There were many unexpected difficulties, De Bont says. For instance, most skydiving scenes are filmed by a third skydiver who wears a camera on his head. But the helmet-cam skydiver weighed significantly more, so he dropped much faster than the jumpers in featherweight flying suits. The crew ended up filming from helicopters � another difficulty, because the slightest wind gust can send the jumpers into an unexpected direction.

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