Digger Trailer Reveals Tom Cruise in What May Be His Least Recognizable Role Ever — And I Can't Wait to See More

Today's archetypal afloat trailer for Digger shows Top Gun prima Tom Cruise successful his slightest recognizable relation yet — arsenic an aging CEO who realizes helium indispensable prevention the satellite from a earthy catastrophe helium created.

But alternatively than rappeling successful connected a zipwire oregon nuking thing from a combatant jet, Cruise's adjacent relation arsenic Digger Rockwell sees the histrion redeeming the satellite from nether a dense furniture of prosthetic makeup.

Cruise's quality is portrayed arsenic a affluent billionaire who initially doesn't attraction that his actions person started melting the polar icecaps — a process that volition effect successful trillions of dollars successful harm unless catastrophe is averted. (A quality study shown connected TV features a little clip of mediocre aged London getting flooded!)

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Luckily, Digger Rockwell yet appears to beryllium convinced helium indispensable assistance by a likewise aging president (played by John Goodman), via a program that seems to impact flying up to the North Pole and... blowing immoderate worldly up? Some aspects of a emblematic Tom Cruise movie inactive look present, astatine least.

"Digg. Or Die," reads the movie's tagline. Here's hoping its the former.

The deliberately quirky Digger is the latest task of Alejandro G. Iñárritu, the famed Mexican writer and manager down Birdman and The Revenant. The movie besides features an awesome supporting cast, including Star Wars: Rogue One's Riz Ahmed, Project Hail Mary's Sandra Hüller, Breaking Bad's Jesse Plemons and Dopesick's Michael Stuhlbarg.

Keen to spot more? Barring different trailer, there's conscionable 3 months to spell until Digger arrives successful theaters connected October 2, 2026.

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