Tom Cruise looks unrecognisable in the first trailer for Alejandro G Iñárritu’s ‘Digger’
Tom Cruise has finally shared the first trailer for the mysterious new film, Digger.
There has been massive hype surrounding the upcoming film from director Alejandro G Iñárritu, returning to English-language filmmaking for the first time since The Revenant in 2016.
However, with the plot details having been kept under wraps until now, ahead of its October release, Cruise sparked much excitement by revealing the first trailer via his social media accounts on July 13th.
In doing so, this unveils an unrecognisable Cruise playing the role of Digger Rockwell, an ageing oil tycoon whose business has set off an ecological disaster which sends the world teetering towards nuclear war.
The official plot synopsis for the film describes it as “a comedy of catastrophic proportions,” while Cruise’s Digger “embarks on a frantic mission to prove that he is humanity’s saviour before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything.”
As previously announced, the cast of the film is rounded out by John Goodman, playing the US president, alongside Sandra Hüller, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse Plemons, Sophie Wilde, Riz Ahmed and Emma D’Arcy.
The appropriately existential overtures of the Talking Heads classic ‘Burning Down the House’ soundtrack the trailer, building even more anticipation ahead of the film’s official release in cinemas on October 2nd this year.
With the basic premise of Digger now revealed, it leaves the cast to speak about it slightly more freely than before. Back in May, Hüller told The Hollywood Reporter, “I am nearly bursting wanting to talk about this movie. But I can’t. I legally can’t.”
However, she did add at the time: “I can say that I saw a version that’s maybe not the final version, and that it impresses me beyond anything I’ve ever seen. I think it’s going to be a remarkable film.”
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