First look
Warner Bros. released the first trailer for Digger, the new film by Mexican Alejandro G. Iñárritu. It marks his return to English-language cinema since The Revenant and his first collaboration with Tom Cruise.
The trailer shows Cruise in the role of Digger Rockwell, a billionaire whose company triggers a global-scale ecological disaster. Far from the action hero, he appears with prosthetics, overweight, gray hair and a southern accent. His character is “the most powerful man in the world”, but also the main person responsible for the chaos.
The plot: Digger begins a race to convince the world that he can save humanity while trying to contain the disaster he himself caused. The trailer starts with a phrase from the protagonist:
“Everything changes. One day you are a king. The next, you are just ashes in a box.”
A key moment: Digger minimizes the displacement of a glacier in Greenland, ignoring irreversible consequences. John Goodman plays the president of the United States, who demands a solution to avoid the catastrophe.
The mix of black humor and political criticism was described by Iñárritu as “a comedy of catastrophic proportions.”
The cast includes Riz Ahmed, Sandra Hüller, Jesse Plemons, Michael Stuhlbarg, Emma D’Arcy and Sophie Wilde. Filming lasted six months in the United Kingdom, with photography by Emmanuel Lubezki in VistaVision format.
For Cruise, Digger represents a turnaround after more than a decade focused on franchises like Mission: Impossible and Top Gun. It is his first project with Warner Bros. since the agreement signed in 2024.
The film hits theaters on October 2.
