# New ‘Digger’ Trailer Reveals More Of Tom Cruise’s Crusty Oil Baron, A Role That Took The Actor 40 Years To Prepare

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/new-digger-trailer-reveals-more-of-tom-cruises-crusty-oil-baron-a-role-that-took-the-actor-40-years-to-prepare/
- Published: 2026-09-09T16:07:03+00:00
- Updated: 2026-09-09T16:49:00+00:00
- Original publisher: Deadline
- Original article: https://deadline.com/2026/09/digger-trailer-tom-cruise-1236980669/
- Topics: Software, Technology

## Key points

- Warner Bros releases final Digger trailer ahead of 2 October release
- Tom Cruise plays a transformed, crusty oil baron character
- Iñárritu directs; cast includes Goodman, Ahmed, Hüller, Stuhlbarg, Plemons

## Summary

Warner Bros has released the final trailer for Digger, a political satire directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, ahead of its theatrical release on 2 October. Tom Cruise stars as Digger Rockwell, a blunt, ageing oil baron tasked with fixing an environmental catastrophe that he himself caused, in a heavily transformed role the actor says took him "40 years to become". The film matters as a notable career departure for Cruise, reuniting him with an Oscar-winning director for what is being pitched as a darkly comic, Dr Strangelove-style take on political and environmental crisis.

The cast also includes Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Hüller, Michael Stuhlbarg and Jesse Plemons, with Goodman playing a US president who appears to blend traits of Trump and Biden. Iñárritu, a four-time Oscar winner, said he first conceived the character after making The Revenant and had long wanted to work with Cruise. The film was shot in VistaVision using a camera designed in 1954, with cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki, and this final trailer is the same one first shown to exhibitors at CinemaCon in April.

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