Tom Cruise is reportedly set to help with the ceremonial Olympic Video games handoff between Paris and the 2028 host, Los Angeles.
The closing ceremonies will get a lift from the Mission: Unattainable actor who has filmed stunts in each cities as a part of a pre-taped section for 11 August, in line with TMZ.
Particulars of the ceremony stay underneath wraps, however it’s recognized that Anne Hidalgo, the Paris mayor, will hand off the Olympic flag to Karen Bass, the LA mayor. A supply instructed commerce publication Deadline to anticipate “a significant Hollywood manufacturing”.
In keeping with TMZ, which obtained photographs of Cruise filming stunts on the Hollywood signal earlier this 12 months, the 62-year-old actor, recognized for his spectacular stunt work, will rappel down the Stade de France in Paris, journey by airplane to LA and find yourself on the well-known Hollywood Hills signal. Footage of Cruise filming on the iconic vacation spot has begun circulating on-line.
Neither NBC nor the Worldwide Olympic Committee has confirmed Cruise’s involvement. TMZ reported that it was Cruise who approached the IOC about doing a sequence of stunts to attach the video games in Paris to the longer term video games in LA.
The US metropolis, which additionally hosted the 1932 and 1984 summer time video games, will host the Olympics from 14-30 July 2028. The occasions will kick off on the Coliseum, constructed for the 1932 video games, and happen in a set of venues that organizers are calling the Downtown Sports activities Park: the Crypto.com Enviornment (previously the Staples Middle), the Conference Middle, the LA Soccer Membership Stadium, USC’s Galen Middle and the Microsoft Theater.
This could not be Cruise’s first brush with Olympic glory; the actor helped carry the torch by means of Los Angeles for the 2004 video games, as a part of a ceremonial relay throughout the globe earlier than the opening ceremony in Athens, Greece.
The actor has been filming the eighth Mission: Unattainable installment round components of Europe, together with England in March of this 12 months. It’s scheduled for a launch in summer time 2025.
Cruise has been seen cheering on athletes from the stands in Paris, which kicked off its Olympics on 26 July with a theatrical, winding opening ceremony alongside the Seine River. The four-hour affair featured musical performances by Girl Gaga, Aya Nakamura, the punk band Gojira and Céline Dion, who dazzled in her first efficiency since she introduced her prognosis with the autoimmune dysfunction referred to as stiff individual syndrome.
