Tom Cruise has unveiled Digger as the title for his upcoming movie with director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, along with the poster on his X account, while Warner Bros. released a short teaser.
The “brutal comedy,” as the Oscar-winning Mexican director indicated at Cannes, will see Cruise star as the titular character Digger Rockwell, alongside Sandra Huller, Jesse Plemons, John Goodman, Riz Ahmed, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sophie Wilde and Emma D’Arcy.
The Digger poster touts the upcoming film, set for an Oct. 2026 theatrical release, as a “Comedy of Catastrophic Proportions.” The project is co-written by Iñárritu, Alexander Dinelaris, Nicolas Giacobone and Sabrina Berman. A logline for the project on IMDB points to the “most powerful man in the world” racing to prove he can save humanity before the destruction he unleashes destroys everything.
“All I can say is it is a brutal, wild comedy of catastrophic proportions. It’s insane. It’s scary and funny and beautiful. I know comedy is not what people expect from me, or Tom, and making this film was terrifying for me,” Iñárritu said while in Cannes. “But I don’t like to repeat myself, and every film should scare you a little. I felt Birdman was a comedy, a dark comedy, and this one was challenging like that. And Tom makes me laugh every single day. He has this total commitment, this total madness,” he added.
Iñárritu and Cruise tentatively titled their project Judy, and shot the movie project in London as it marked the director’s first collaboration with the Mission: Impossible superstar. The short teaser from Warner Bros. revealed Cruise performing choreographed dances with a spade against stylized and outlandish backdrops.
