Tom Cruise, the Hollywood sign, a little movie magic… what better way to herald the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics? According to TMZ, the Mission Impossible star will perform a series of stunts combining all of the above during this year’s closing ceremony in Paris to ring in the games’s LA era.
It should come as no surprise that the actor, who has built a reputation for performing his own high-octane stunts, is reportedly responsible for coming up with the idea himself. Per TMZ, Cruise came to the International Olympic Committee with the stunt pitch, which will kick off with the Top Gun star (or a rare stunt double—the logistics are apparently still being ironed out) rappelling down onto the field from the top of the 115-foot Stade de France with the official Olympic flag.
From there, the broadcast will switch to a pre-recorded segment that Cruise shot this spring, in which the Golden Globe winner flies from France to the City of Angels and skydives down to the iconic Hollywood sign. Paparazzi photos captured Cruise perched on the big white letters with a film crew in tow in March—now we know why. The pre-filmed segment will then see the action star passing the flag to a series of Olympians, which will reportedly include a cyclist, a skateboarder, and a volleyball player.
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This is far from the first time Cruise has performed stunts with iconic landmarks. Perhaps most famously, the Hollywood icon scaled the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, for Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. It’s not his first time at the Olympics, either; in 2004, Cruise carried the torch through LA for part of a relay before the summer games in Athens.
This summer’s closing ceremony is scheduled for August 11. “Expect a major Hollywood production,” a source told Deadline. We will now!
