Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise on Sunday took part in the closing ceremonies of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics in a segment that evoked (copied?) the opening ceremonies for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
With the Cruise version, the actor-producer carries the Olympic flag while repelling down the Olympic Stadium in Paris. After getting to the bottom of the stadium, heshakes the hand of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.
Cruise appears (thanks to a pre-recorded segment) to travel to Los Angeles, site of the 2028 Summer Olympics. He skydives to the Hollywood sign. Cruise performed a major skydiving stunt in 2018's Mission: Impossible - Fallout.
The TMZ website discovered how this was staged in an Aug. 1 post.
Cruise's Mission: Impossible movies are known for doing new versions of old James Bond film stunts. In Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One, Cruise did a stunt similar to the pre-titles of GoldenEye:
With the Olympics closing ceremony, Cruise has drawn "inspiration" (a blueprint?) from 2012.
A dozen years ago, the opening ceremonies of the London-based Olympics included a segment where Daniel Craig's Bond escorts Queen Elizabeth II to a helicopter. It appeared on the broadcast as if Bond and the Queen were flying to the site of the opening ceremonies. Their stunt doubles then skydive to the Olympic stadium.
That segment was directed by Danny Boyle, who years later would be hired to direct Bond 25/No Time to Die before he bowed out.
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