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Tom Cruise Debuts First Look from Iñárritu’s Digger in Career Retrospective

The studio video spotlights a marked physical makeover for Cruise and frames the film as a large-scale black comedy.

Overview

  • Warner and Cruise released a three-minute retrospective video Tuesday and Wednesday that revisits his four-decade career and ends with the first footage from Digger.
  • The footage shows Cruise in an aged, more robust appearance playing Digger Rockwell, an eccentric magnate who tries to cast himself as a savior after a global catastrophe.
  • Studio copy describes Digger as a ‘comedy of catastrophic proportions,’ and the project marks Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s return to English-language filmmaking since 2015.
  • The film features an ensemble cast including John Goodman, Sandra Hüller, Jesse Plemons, Riz Ahmed, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sophie Wilde and Emma D’Arcy.
  • Warner is positioning Digger as a major 2026 release with a reported October 2 theatrical date and a single-source report of a July 13 teaser rollout, details that remain developing and partially unconfirmed.