Tom Cruise soars at 2024 Olympics Closing Ceremony in Paris

Tom Cruise pulled off his newest not possible mission on the grandest scale conceivable: a sequence of death-defying stunts on the Paris Olympics Closing Ceremony.

The Prime Gun: Maverick star helped have fun the top of the 2024 Olympics on Sunday, and the countdown to the the ’28 Video games in Los Angeles by rappeling down the Stade de France, accompanied by H.E.R. on guitar.

Cruise then retrieved the Olympic flag from star of the Video games Simone Biles, earlier than reducing to some prerecorded segments with the 62-year-old motion star driving a bike by means of the streets of Paris after which right into a aircraft. Since that is Tom Cruise, he after all jumps out of mentioned aircraft, scored by L.A.’s personal Purple sizzling Chili Peppers.

Cruise then does his signature run by means of the hills of Los Angeles so he can scale the Hollywood signal, remodeling the O’s into the Olympic rings. He then palms off the flag to bike owner Kate Courtney who brings it to sprinter Michael Johnson after which skateboarder Jagger Eaton, who lastly delivers the flag to Venice Seaside.

On the seaside, the Chili Peppers had been performing reside, dusting off their 2002 hit “Cannot Cease.” They had been adopted by Billie Eilish singing “Birds of a Feather”after which the different star of the Video games, Snoop Dogg, carried out “Drop It Like It is Scorching” and “The Subsequent Episode,” that includes shock visitor Dr. Dre.

Cruise may be noticed spectating quite a few occasions on the Paris video games during the last two weeks, together with Simone Biles’ electrifying gymnastics performances.

Although Cruise’s tv appearances are few and much between at this juncture of his profession, the Olympic stunts ought to come as no shock to anybody who’s adopted the actor’s continuous pursuit of hair-raising bodily spectacle on display. Within the final 5 Mission: Inconceivable films, Cruise has scaled the Burj Khalifa, clung to the aspect of a aircraft because it takes off, dangled from a helicopter, damaged his ankle operating round London rooftops, HALO jumped out of an airplane, and ridden a bike off of a cliff. Cruise additionally appears to be an adrenaline junkie in his spare time — Glen Powell lately mentioned that because the Warfare of the Worlds star piloted his helicopter, he pretended to lose management over the plane over the London skyline as a joke.

Cruise’s subsequent movie, the untitled eighth Mission: Inconceivable film, is at the moment set to launch on Might 23, 2025. Simon Pegg lately introduced by way of Instagram that he’s wrapped his portion of filming on the challenge. The movie can even see Ving Rhames, Hayley Atwell, Henry Czerny, and plenty of extra M:I alums reprise their roles from earlier installments, whereas Nick Offerman, Katy O’Brian, Holt McCallany, and Hannah Waddingham will make their first appearances within the sequence.

Cruise could comply with the subsequent Mission film with a collaboration with Birdman filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu as a part of the star’s new “strategic partnership” with Warner Bros. NASA additionally introduced in 2020 that it might collaborate with the Jerry Maguire actor on a film filmed in house. And Powell instructed {that a} third Prime Gun installment could start manufacturing within the close to future, although particulars on the challenge stay scarce.