Tom Cruise is engineering an epic stunt to shut out the Paris Olympics and move the flag to Los Angeles for the 2028 Video games … TMZ has discovered.

Sources with direct information inform us … the plan for the upcoming Closing Ceremony entails Tom repelling down from the highest of Stade de France … touchdown on the stadium area and carrying the official Olympic flag.

The TV broadcast will then lower to a beforehand recorded movie … and the primary 2 minutes exhibits Tom’s journey on an airplane … flying with the Olympic flag from France to Los Angeles, the place he skydives all the way down to the Hollywood signal.

The Hollywood signal stunt was really filmed on a Saturday morning again in March, and our sources figured somebody would spot Tom within the air, join the dots and the story would leak … however his descent went fully unnoticed.

Now, there are pictures of Tom on the Hollywood signal from again in March, however nobody received him within the air … solely after he was already on the bottom, and nobody had a clue this was associated to the Olympics.

We’re instructed the movie will then present Tom passing the flag to different Olympians — together with a bike owner, skateboarder and volleyball participant — as they make their means across the subsequent host metropolis for the Summer season Video games.

In paparazzi footage from March, you may see Tom passing the flag to the primary Olympian.

Our sources say logistics for the stunt portion in France are nonetheless being labored out … the Closing Ceremony is ready for Aug. 11 … that is all very sophisticated, and Tom may need a stunt double do the precise repelling to kick this all off.

Tom, we’re instructed, is the driving power behind all of this … and he is really the one who approached the Worldwide Olympic Committee about doing a sequence of stunts to bridge the Paris and L.A. Video games.

Tom’s really been concerned in previous Olympic ceremonies … in 2004, he helped carry the torch by Los Angeles as a part of a relay throughout the globe forward of the Summer season Olympics in Athens, Greece.