Overview
- Warner Bros. premiered an extended look at Digger at CinemaCon on Tuesday in Las Vegas, with Tom Cruise and director Alejandro G. Iñárritu onstage to introduce it to a standing ovation.
- The footage shows Cruise nearly unrecognizable as oil tycoon Digger Rockwell, aged with thinning gray hair, a heavier frame and a Southern drawl as he fusses over a frail cat.
- The teaser frames a man‑made environmental crisis after Arctic drilling goes wrong, with a methane‑driven disaster that threatens mass displacement and even nuclear confrontation.
- Iñárritu describes the film as a “wild comedy of catastrophic proportions,” with John Goodman playing the U.S. president and a cast that includes Jesse Plemons, Sandra Hüller, Riz Ahmed, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sophie Wilde and Emma D’Arcy.
- Warner Bros. dated the film for theaters on October 2, and trade reports say it may skip major fall festivals such as Venice, Telluride and Toronto, though that strategy could still change.