Tom Cruise Will Close Out the Olympics By Skydiving Onto the Hollywood Sign

Tom Cruise, the Hollywood signal, a little bit film magic… what higher option to herald the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics? In response to TMZ, the Mission Unimaginable star will carry out a sequence of stunts combining all the above throughout this yr’s closing ceremony in Paris to ring within the video games’s LA period.

It ought to come as no shock that the actor, who has constructed a repute for performing his personal high-octane stunts, is reportedly chargeable for arising with the concept himself. Per TMZ, Cruise got here to the Worldwide Olympic Committee with the stunt pitch, which can kick off with the High Gun star (or a uncommon stunt double—the logistics are apparently nonetheless being ironed out) rappelling down onto the sphere from the highest of the 115-foot Stade de France with the official Olympic flag.

From there, the published will change to a pre-recorded section that Cruise shot this spring, by which the Golden Globe winner flies from France to the Metropolis of Angels and skydives all the way down to the enduring Hollywood signal. Paparazzi images captured Cruise perched on the large white letters with a movie crew in tow in March—now we all know why. The pre-filmed section will then see the motion star passing the flag to a sequence of Olympians, which can reportedly embrace a bicycle owner, a skateboarder, and a volleyball participant.

That is removed from the primary time Cruise has carried out stunts with iconic landmarks. Maybe most famously, the Hollywood icon scaled the world’s tallest constructing, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, for Mission Unimaginable: Ghost Protocol. It’s not his first time on the Olympics, both; in 2004, Cruise carried the torch by LA for a part of a relay earlier than the summer time video games in Athens.

This summer time’s closing ceremony is scheduled for August 11. “Count on a serious Hollywood manufacturing,” a supply instructed Deadline. We’ll now!