Warner Bros. Pictures released the first official trailer for Digger, an upcoming Tom Cruise-led dramedy, coming out in theatres on October 2.
Academy Award winner Tom Cruise has played many iconic roles over the last four decades, from Risky Business, Top Gun, A Few Good Men, The Last Samurai, to building out the Mission: Impossible cinematic universe. Now, the actor leads a new satirical black comedy, Digger, which Warner Bros. Pictures released its first official trailer today (July 13, 2026). A new poster was also released today. Digger will be released in theatres globally on October 2, 2026.
Maybe not all screenings, but if you went to see Supergirl, there was a high chance of seeing a teaser for this film—honouring 40 years of Cruise’s culminated cinematic career leading to this movie. The same teaser was first shown at CinemaCon 2026. Ahead of the trailer’s launch, Cruise previewed the highly anticipated footage for press, film critics and fans in a special presentation on the Warner Bros. lot in Los Angeles.
Digger also stars Oscar winner Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Oscar nominee Sandra Hüller, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Oscar nominee Jesse Plemons. Robert John Burke, Emma D’Arcy, Burn Gorman and Sophie Wilde also star. Cruise stars as Digger Rockwell, sporting a thick Southern accent, a pot belly and thinning white hair (fashioned in an unconvincing combover) to play “the most powerful man in the world,” a billionaire whose company may have set off an ecological disaster that could also spark a nuclear war.
The official synopsis reads, “The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s saviour before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything.” Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu (The Revenant) brings this original film to life, as he directed and co-created the story with Sabina Berman.
The trailer exuded the same energy Cruise brought to his character Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder. “Digg. Or die,” is the tagline for the upcoming movie. Cruise’s co-stars look to be matching the same energy as him as well, with Goodman and Ahmed looking to be pivotal characters as well. The self-proclaimed “man who saved cinema” after the COVID-19 pandemic may be bringing the wackiest role of his lifetime, and why should he not?
The list of Oscar-nominated and Oscar-winning cast and crew does not simply end for Digger. Joining Iñárritu behind the camera are previous collaborators Oscar-winning director of photography Emmanuel Lubezki; editors Conor O’Neill and Oscar winner Stephen Mirrone; Oscar-nominated costume designer Jacqueline West; Oscar-winning makeup and hair designer Alessandro Bertolazzi; and Oscar-nominated casting director Francine Maisler; along with Oscar-winning production designer Dennis Gassner and production designer Richard Johnson, Oscar-winning prosthetic makeup designer Kazu Hiro, and composer Cosmo Sheldrake.
Apparently, Cruise had seen Iñárritu’s directorial debut of Amores perros back in 2000, and the duo began discussions about Digger in 2019 while Cruise was filming Top Gun: Maverick. The Revenant was Iñárritu’s first English-language film, making this film his second. Digger was shot entirely on 35mm film using VistaVision, and will be released in theatres and IMAX across North America on October 2, 2026, but will begin screening internationally on September 30.
