Overview
- Warner Bros. released the first full trailer on Monday, July 13, 2026, confirming key plot beats from Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger and a worldwide theatrical and IMAX release set for October 2, 2026.
- Tom Cruise appears heavily altered with prosthetic makeup, a Southern accent, a pot belly and thinning white hair to play oil tycoon Digger Rockwell, a publicity angle the studio is using to highlight his dramatic turn.
- The footage and studio materials underline the film’s craft pedigree: Iñárritu directing, Emmanuel Lubezki shooting on VistaVision, effects work credited to Industrial Light & Magic and Legacy Effects, and a reported six-month shoot in the U.K.
- The trailer frames Digger as a satirical black comedy about an industry-created ecological catastrophe — a Greenland glacier shift in the footage — and shows John Goodman’s president urging the titular tycoon to avert wider disaster.
- Warner Bros. and Legendary’s marketing has been staged — CinemaCon and a Warner lot preview, social teases from Cruise, and IMAX attachments — positioning Digger as a director-driven, big‑screen event and Cruise’s first major non-franchise lead under his Warner deal.