LOS ANGELES – Organizers of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics have named TV and movie government Peter Rice as head of ceremonies and content material, marking the primary time a significant Hollywood determine will oversee the inventive manufacturing of the Olympic and Paralympic ceremonies.
Rice, who has had senior management expertise with twenty first Century Fox and The Walt Disney Firm, will function lead government producer for each the Opening and Closing Ceremonies in Los Angeles.
“Our ceremonies will seize the power, innovation and creativity of Los Angeles in addition to the emotion that exists on the coronary heart of each Olympic Video games,” Rice instructed Reuters in an interview.
“The problem is to welcome the world in a method that is not solely memorable, however really consultant of LA’s distinctive spirit – a metropolis that stands on the crossroads of creativity, sports activities, and artwork.”
The British American producer will form the inventive imaginative and prescient and oversee manufacturing of all 4 ceremonies at two iconic venues: the historic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and the newly constructed SoFi Stadium.
He mentioned his expertise with international sporting occasions just like the Tremendous Bowl, World Collection, and FIFA World Cup has ready him for the duty, and emphasised that assembling a world-class manufacturing group was his prime precedence.
“We want folks with deep Olympic expertise who may faucet into LA’s creativity and power,” he mentioned, including that the number of a manufacturing firm is anticipated by yr’s finish.
LA28 Chairperson Casey Wasserman expressed enthusiasm for Rice’s appointment, citing their 25-year friendship and Rice’s distinctive mix of enterprise, technical, monetary and inventive expertise.
“I knew he was our primary draft decide,” Wasserman mentioned.
Rice, whose tasks have earned 51 Academy Award and 293 Emmy nominations, hopes the ceremonies replicate Southern California’s spirit of optimism.
“It’s a spot the place folks go to pursue their goals, and the Olympics are all about folks’s goals,” he mentioned.
The LA Video games open on July 14, 2028, with the Paralympic Video games following in August. It is going to be the primary time Los Angeles has hosted a Paralympics.
—Reuters
