Overview
- Warner Bros. publicly released the first full trailer on Monday, July 13, giving audiences the initial wide look at footage that had been previewed privately earlier this year.
- Cruise appears heavily transformed with facial and body prosthetics, a thinning white combover, a pot belly and a thick Southern drawl to play oil magnate Digger Rockwell.
- The trailer frames the film as a dark comedy about a company-triggered ecological disaster that risks broader geopolitical escalation and follows Rockwell’s frantic efforts to contain the fallout.
- Digger was shot in the U.K. on large-format VistaVision with cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, and Alejandro G. Iñárritu wrote and directed the film with a long‑standing creative team while finishing postproduction in the U.K.
- The studio is running a theatrical‑first campaign with the trailer attached to IMAX screenings, Cruise boosting promotion on social platforms, and early reactions prompting awards‑season speculation about Cruise’s career shift from franchise action to a character role.