Tom Cruise Performing Epic Stunt To Close Paris Olympics, Pass Flag To L.A. 2028 | TMZ TV
Tom Cruise is engineering an epic stunt to close out the Paris Olympics and pass the flag to Los Angeles for the 2028 Games ... TMZ has learned.
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00:00What manner of man flies into Parisian airspace,
00:03rappels down into the Olympic Stadium,
00:06risking life and limb,
00:07and all for the delights of tens of millions of people?
00:10We know what you're taking.
00:11Sounds like a job for Steve Buscemi.
00:14Ooh, but better yet...
00:16So, Tom Cruise might rappel into Olympic Stadium,
00:20draped in the Olympic flag to close the ceremonies
00:23and kick off 2028 in L.A.
00:26What we're told is that it's not in cement right now
00:31because it's very complicated.
00:32Well, if you consider quickly and safely
00:35dropping by rope into a packed stadium complicated,
00:38then, yes, it's very complicated.
00:41Tom Cruise, baby!
00:42Then they cut to this four-minute film.
00:44And the film is apparently Tom getting into a plane,
00:48going to Los Angeles, jumping out of the plane,
00:51parachuting down to the Hollywood sign,
00:54and then passing off the flag to an athlete.
00:58So he passes it to one who then passes it to another.
01:00Passing the torch, so to speak, for 2028.
01:04And they've been planning this for some time.
01:06They shot Tom Cruise parachuting
01:08down onto the Hollywood sign in March.
01:10And they knew that there was such a chance
01:14somebody would be able to capture Tom coming down.
01:18Nobody got the shot.
01:19Well, there was a shot of Tom
01:21after hanging out by the Hollywood sign.
01:23But everyone figured, hell, just a typical Saturday
01:26morning in LA.
01:27It's going to be awesome.
01:28I got to tell you, we had a Canadian woman
01:30opening the Olympics, an American man.
01:32And we're the French, for God's sake.
01:33They can't do anything?
01:35Hey, you want a freaking mime?
01:37Or do you want Tom freaking Cruise?