Jul 13, 2026 7:57pm IST
‘Digger’ Trailer: Tom Cruises Through Disaster As Oil-Crazy Billionaire In This Catastrophic Comedy by Alejandro G. Iñárritu
A dark comedy that digs deep into the recesses of human greed in the most blatant way possible, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Digger,” stars Tom Cruise as Digger Rockwell.
The line you just read needs to be repeated. And spelt out. Because unlike “Tropic Thunder,” a potbellied, unrecognizable Cruise waddles about in “Digger” with all of the arrogance and foul-mouthed charisma of “Thunder”’s Les Grossman. But with better prosthetics and a full head of hair.
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That should’ve been enough when the trailer for this new hotly anticipated film dropped. Digger is an oil baron, whose only other obsession is caring for his (seemingly) ailing feline friend. When informed that a project in Greenland has caused a tsunami and a nuclear fallout that threatens to snowball into losses in the excess of $18 trillion, the US president (John Goodman) isn’t pleased and tells Cruise’s character to sort out the mess.
Armed with his trusty shovel and a hollering advisor Ganesh (Riz Ahmed) and with no option but to “digg or die”, Rockwell and a cast featuring Sandra Hüller, Jesse Plemons and Emma D’Arcy are all in for a seemingly wild ride.
Taking the fight to Mother Nature and working on trying to “control the narrative” in the aftermath of disaster and still come up smelling like roses, Digger Rockwell is quite literally a force of nature himself, simply going by the trailer.
With Talking Heads’ “Burning Down The House” playing loud and proud in the background, it’s ripe with intent on doing just that.
“Digger” releases October 2, 2026.
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