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.