The 2024 Summer season Olympics are formally over and Tom Cruise put them within the rearview mirror with a stunt that would have doubled as an advert for subsequent yr’s Mission: Unattainable sequel. And he didn’t even break a leg this time.
It shouldn’t essentially come as a shock that the film obsessive can be the one to do the hand-off between the 2024 video games and the 2028 occasion in Los Angeles. Nobody nonetheless residing embodies Hollywood fairly like Cruise, and if anybody was going to leap down from the stadium rafters for a hokey publicity stunt it was going to be the man who commonly mugs the digicam outdoors theaters to maintain the dream of the double-feature matinee alive.
After tumbling down from the Stade de France catwalk and taking the stage to officiate the passing of the Olympic torch between Paris and L.A., Cruise put the Olympic flag on a bike and took off into the evening. A pre-filmed phase then adopted displaying Cruise arriving by aircraft into the U.S. earlier than finally being noticed by a reworked Hollywood hills signal. The closing ceremony wrapped up with a live performance on Venice Seashore that includes the Pink Scorching Chili Peppers, Billie Eilish, Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre. “Can’t Cease” and “Drop It Like It’s Scorching” had been performed, each of which are actually 20 years previous.
Previous to the hand-off ceremony, Cruise was noticed at different matches all through the Summer season Olympics, most noticeably the ladies’s soccer remaining the place, sporting huge, darkish aviators, he enthusiastically joined the thunderous applause when Mallory Swanson cemented the U.S. nationwide workforce’s victory with a phenomenal aim within the 57th minute. It was Cruise who bought the applause final evening, nonetheless, with an outpouring of appreciation for his rollercoaster experience to changing into the final main film star on the planet.
The 2024 Summer season Olympics themselves felt at factors like an uncommon return to the times of everybody tuning into and reacting to the identical blockbuster film, TV present, or sporting occasion, the kind of factor Cruise now appears to have made it his life’s mission to protect.
