Digger Trailer: Tom Cruise Plays an Oil Tycoon in Iñárritu’s Wild New Black Comedy

Tom Cruise doing a straight-faced apocalypse comedy for Alejandro G. Iñárritu sounds like a fake movie someone made up on a podcast, but here we are — Warner Bros. just dropped a new trailer for Digger, and it’s every bit as strange as that pitch implies.

Cruise plays Digger Rockwell, an oil tycoon who triggers a disaster of his own making and then spends the rest of the film trying to convince everyone — the public, the government, probably himself — that he’s actually the guy who’s going to save the planet. It’s a big swing for Iñárritu, whose last two films (Birdman, The Revenant) won him Best Director Oscars back to back but weren’t exactly known for laughs.

The supporting cast is doing a lot of heavy lifting too: Riz Ahmed as a scientist who gets dragged into the mess, John Goodman as the President, Sandra Hüller as Digger’s sister, Michael Stuhlbarg as the VP, and Jesse Plemons rounding things out. That’s a genuinely stacked lineup for what’s being sold as a comedy.

Worth noting: this was shot on 35mm VistaVision by Emmanuel Lubezki, which tracks — Iñárritu apparently had the idea kicking around since around The Revenant, and only locked Cruise in back in 2024. Cosmo Sheldrake, better known for nature-documentary scores, is doing the music, which is its own small oddity.

Digger hits IMAX and wide release on October 2, 2026.