Whereas Tom Cruise took care of the Olympics handoff solo, he had some firm right now pumping up America earlier than the Tremendous Bowl.
“The lengthy winding street right here has all led to this,” intoned Cruise in a pre-game hype video broadcast right now on Fox just some minutes earlier than kickoff. Cruise’s video combined Mission: Not possible-adjacent encomiums with slow-motion pictures of Eagles and Chiefs gamers as they readied themselves for the large recreation.
Only a few minutes earlier, a stirring video narrated by Brad Pitt dropped on-line, with the celebrity stressing the Tremendous Bowl as a metaphor for nationwide unity: “At present, we have a good time the urgency of now, the joys of what’s subsequent, the glory of this recreation, and we do it as one.”
(Additional factors for structure buff Pitt working L.A.’s iconic Bradbury Constructing into his video.)
Each stars additionally had trailers for his or her subsequent movies drop throughout the huge recreation. A promo for Cruise’s remaining outing as Ethan Hunt in Mission: Not possible — The Ultimate Reckoning showcased the excessive stakes of the star’s final stint chasing down villains, conducting submarine reconnaissance and hanging off planes. Pitt groups with Cruise’s Prime Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski for the racing drama F1, the Tremendous Bowl trailer for which reveals the actor navigating some tense moments on and off the observe as former System One driver Sonny Hayes, who returns to the game after a horrible crash took him out of fee within the ’90s.