Overview
- The first trailer, released Monday, names Tom Cruise as Digger Rockwell, an eccentric oil magnate who seeks to stop a disaster he helped cause.
- The preview highlights a pronounced physical transformation for Cruise, showing a larger midsection and thinning gray hair that change his usual screen image.
- The ensemble cast announced in the trailer includes Sandra Hüller, Jesse Plemons, Riz Ahmed, Emma D’Arcy, John Goodman and Michael Stuhlbarg.
- Director Alejandro González Iñárritu has said he worked on the project for about ten years and the film was shot on VistaVision; the trailer pairs striking images and Talking Heads’ music to set a darkly comic tone.
- Warner Bros. billed Digger as a “comedy of catastrophic proportions” and has slated an early-October theatrical release, though reports differ on the exact opening date as the studio’s final calendar is awaited.