Overview
- Plemons says the script is “one of the strangest, funniest, most tragic” he has read and compares it to a modern take on Dr. Strangelove.
- Reports attribute the premise to the most powerful man in the world triggering a catastrophe and racing to prove himself humanity’s savior.
- A teaser shows only Cruise’s silhouette dancing with a shovel, keeping his full look and plot specifics deliberately obscured.
- The ensemble features Sandra Hüller, Riz Ahmed, Emma D’Arcy, Sophie Wilde, Michael Stuhlbarg, John Goodman, and Jesse Plemons alongside Cruise.
- Alejandro G. Iñárritu directs and co-writes with Nicolás Giacobone, Sabina Berman, and Alexander Dinelaris, with Iñárritu, Tom Cruise, and Mary Parent producing for Legendary Pictures.