Tom Cruise Debuts 'Digger' Trailer with Iñárritu
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- Warner Bros. debuted the 'Digger' trailer at a special presentation on its Los Angeles lot, marking Cruise's first film with the studio since signing a deal in January 2024.
- Tom Cruise stars as Digger Rockwell, a billionaire described as 'the most powerful man in the world,' whose company may have triggered an ecological disaster and a potential nuclear war.
- John Goodman portrays an ailing U.S. president who implores Cruise's character to fix the mess; Riz Ahmed, Sandra Hüller, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse Plemons, Sophie Wilde, and Emma D'Arcy round out the ensemble cast.
- Alejandro González Iñárritu spent roughly 10 years developing the project, pitching the idea to Cruise about seven years ago; the screenplay was co-written by Iñárritu with Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, and Sabina Berman.
- "Digger" was shot in the U.K. over six months using VistaVision, with longtime Iñárritu collaborator Emmanuel Lubezki as cinematographer and Legendary Pictures producing.
- "Digger" is set for theatrical release on Oct. 2 and is described in its logline as following Digger 'on a frantic mission to prove that he is humanity's savior before the disaster he's unleashed destroys everything.'
Why it matters: A Cruise-Iñárritu pairing marks one of the more unlikely prestige-teamings of the year — Iñárritu's first English-language film in over a decade following 'The Revenant.' Its Oct. 2 theatrical release slots the buzzy black comedy directly into fall awards-season conversation, and its Warner Bros. debut signals the early fruits of Cruise's January 2024 studio deal.
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