Tom Cruise will be performing a stunt at the Olympic closing ceremony (Image: Dave Benett/Getty Images)

Tom Cruise is going to help close the 2024 Paris Olympics with an epic stunt of his own design that bridges Paris to Los Angeles, where the next Olympics will be held

Tom Cruise is reportedly going to help close out the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The Mission Impossible star will pass the Olympic torch to Los Angeles, where the next summer Olympics will take place in 2028. Sources tell TMZ that the plan for the Paris closing ceremony involves the star rappelling down from the top of the Stade de France while carrying the Olympic flag.

After landing on the stadium field 115 feet down from the top, the TV broadcast will then cut to a prerecorded segment. In it, Tom prepares himself to jump out of an airplane flying from Paris to Los Angeles.

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Tom previously recorded part of it in March

He’ll then skydive, landing on the famed Hollywood sign. Photos of Tom climbing the sign emerged in March, when the TV segment was first filmed.

Tom will pass the Olympic flag to various Olympians, including a cyclist, skateboarder, and volleyball star, as they travel through Los Angeles as a way of turning the games over to the City of Angels. The closing ceremony in Paris is slated for Sunday August 11.

According to TMZ, Tom is the one who approached the International Olympic Committee (IOC) about doing a series of stunts for the closing ceremony. While Tom typically does his own stunts, the kinks are being worked out on his live rappel down the Stade de France and might include a stunt double.

This isn’t the first time Tom has taken part of an Olympic games. In 2004, when the Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, he helped carry the Olympic torch.

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Tom might need a stunt double for this stunt ( Image: Getty Images)

The announcement of Tom’s involvement in the closing ceremony comes after a number of celebrities helped ring in the Paris Olympics with the Opening Ceremony. Lady Gaga performed on the Seine River while Celine Dion closed the ceremony by belting out a French song while on the Eiffel Tower.

This was Celine’s first performance since being diagnosed with Stiff Person Syndrome in 2022. The star last performed in 2020, leaving her world tour due to illness.

It was an emotional performance from the French Canadian singer, moving fans to tears including opening ceremony co-host Kelly Clarkson. Kelly apologized to her fellow hosts, Peyton Manning and Olympics primetime host Mike Tirico.

“If you know anything about what she’s going through right now. I’m so sorry I’m trying to hold it together,” she said, “She got through that. That was incredible and in my field she is the gold winner for vocal athletes like she is incredible.”