Digger Trailer: Tom Cruise Dances – And Digs – In First Look At Alejandro G Iñárritu Team-Up
Over the last decade or so, real-life action man Tom Cruise has astonished us with his feats of derring-do across several _Mission: Impossible_s, a Top Gun: Maverick, a couple of _Jack Reacher_s, and an American Made, too. But do you know what none of those films had? None of ’em had our man TC dancing — and digging — in a pair of cowboy boots and (seemingly) a decent amount of prosthetics. Which is where Alejandro G Iñárritu’s aptly titled ‘comedy of catastrophic proportions’ Digger, whose first teaser trailer dropped this afternoon, comes in. Check it out below;
Tropic Thunder fans, rejoice — it would appear the spirit of Les Grossman has found a new vessel! Or his moves have at least, anyway. Now as teaser trailers go, Digger‘s really is all tease and virtually no trail, but as a first glimpse at Iñárritu’s 35mm VistaVision epic — penned by the director alongside his Birdman collaborators Alexander Dinelaris and Nicolas Giacobone, and acclaimed playwright Sabina Berman — it certainly creates a sense of something completely unique and new on its way from both the filmmaker and his lead. And while plot details remain firmly under wraps for now (save for unconfirmed reports that Cruise plays a man trying to prove he’s humanity’s saviour before disaster strikes), Iñárritu promised at Cannes earlier this year that he and Cruise have “a brutal, wild comedy of catastrophic proportions” in store for cinemagoers. “It’s insane,” said the director at the time. “It’s scary and funny and beautiful.”
With a stacked line-up aboard for the ride (Anatomy Of A Fall‘s Sandra Hüller, Jesse Plemons, John Goodman, Talk To Me breakout Sophie Wilde, Michael Stuhlbarg, Riz Ahmed, Emma D’Arcy), Cruise breaking out of the action mould for the first time in over a decade, and all bets off as to just what the hell he and Iñárritu have been cooking, suffice it to say we are locked in and ready for Digger‘s October 2026 release. You could even say that we’re fully digging it. (Sorry, not sorry.)
