Tom Cruise's 'Digger' Isn't a Musical, Sources Confirm — SkimNews
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- Variety confirmed through two sources familiar with the production that Tom Cruise's 'Digger' is not a movie musical, though the outlets' sources were reportedly amused by the online sleuthing
- Internet sleuths ignited the rumor after the final trailer showed Cruise — in heavy prosthetics — on a rotating platform often used in stage productions, with background actors appearing to have their mouths open mid-song
- Author Jason Pargin posted on X on Sept. 10 that 'My favorite conspiracy theory right now is that Digger is secretly a musical and they're desperately trying to hide it in the marketing'
- 'Digger' has not been widely screened for press and is set for release on Oct. 2
- Tom Cruise told Empire he was drawn to the project when director Alejandro G. Iñárritu read him the script aloud over several days, saying he 'want[s] the writer to read me his idea' so he can feel the rhythms of the world
- The cast of 'Digger' includes Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Hüller, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Jesse Plemons, with Iñárritu co-writing the script alongside Alexander Dinelaris, Nicolás Giacobone, and Sabina Berman
Why it matters: For a major studio tentpole that has been kept largely under wraps ahead of its Oct. 2 release, viral misreadings of the trailer have become a low-cost marketing curiosity — Variety's debunking keeps the actual reveal (Inñárritu's first film since 'The Revenant') from being overshadowed by a fan theory.
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