Moonraker’s Freefall: The Template For All Skydiving Action Sequences
In the heart-stopping opening sequence of 1979’s Moonraker, James Bond is pushed out of a plane without a parachute. This is long before CGI, long before Marvel did such scenes with computers. Everything is done for real, except the stuntman doubling as Bond is wearing a parachute concealed underneath a special jacket that breaks away…