Tom Cruise looks to be going all in on Digger. Warner Bros. has released the official final trailer for the upcoming film from Oscar-winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu (The Revenant, Birdman), giving us the clearest look thus far at this strange, swaggering disaster satire. Watch the final trailer above and get the details below.

The End of the World, According to Digger

The previous official trailer revealed the basic shape of the story. Tom Cruise plays Digger Rockwell, a swaggering billionaire oil tycoon whose business has helped unleash an ecological catastrophe. Having played a part in creating the problem, Digger now wants everyone to believe he is also the man to fix it.

The final trailer builds on that setup, leaning harder into the absurdity with angry crowds, government panic, environmental devastation and increasingly desperate attempts to keep everything under control. Digger, all the while, barrels forward with the confidence of someone who has never considered that he might not be the smartest person in the room.

One line captures the film’s attitude nicely: “With great power comes greater opportunity to deny everything.”

Iñárritu has been increasingly direct about the idea behind the film. Speaking to Empire, he put it this way: “The disaster isn’t a comet or an earthquake, or an alien invasion. The disaster is us. Most disaster movies ask, ‘What if something terrible happened to humanity?’ Our question was much simpler: ‘What if humanity happened to humanity?’”

Tom Cruise in Full Character Mode

Taking a break from death-defying stunts, Digger finds Cruise in full character mode. The thinning grey hair, heavier frame, false teeth, cowboy swagger and broad Southern accent are only part of it. Cruise plays Rockwell as a bundle of bravado, nervous energy and theatrical self-belief.

Iñárritu has pointed to the performance as a different kind of challenge for Cruise. Speaking at CinemaCon, as reported by Variety, the director said: “We know that he’s fearless — the stunts, the planes, the jumps. But I have to say, embodying this character is another kind of fearless.”

Iñárritu also called Cruise’s performance a “high-wire act”, adding: “This role could possibly be the most challenging.”

Cruise has an impressive ensemble around him. Oscar winner Riz Ahmed plays scientist Dr. Ganesh, while John Goodman is U.S. President Compson, with both caught up in the rapidly worsening crisis surrounding Digger.

Sandra Hüller, Michael Stuhlbarg and Jesse Plemons are also among the major players, with Sophie Wilde, Emma D’Arcy, Robert John Burke and Burn Gorman rounding out the cast.

Iñárritu and Lubezki Go Big

The film also looks like one of Iñárritu’s most visually heightened works. He has reunited with three-time Oscar-winning cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, whose previous collaborations with the filmmaker include Birdman and The Revenant, and the production was shot in VistaVision.

Cruise has also discussed how the filmmakers arrived at the film’s visual identity. Speaking with filmmaker Patrick Tomasso, as reported by The Playlist, he said they tested both 65mm and VistaVision before settling on the latter, with lenses specifically developed for the film.

“We tested 65, and we tested VistaVision, and then they developed the lenses for the film to couple with the VistaVision. So, you’ve never seen VistaVision look like this.”

The scale is clearly part of the joke. Everything is enormous: the crisis, the money, the political machinery and, especially, Digger’s sense of his own importance. Iñárritu and Lubezki appear to be treating the end of the world with the visual grandeur of an epic while letting Cruise charge through it like a man convinced the entire disaster is somehow still about him.

Digger Release Date

With an IMAX release planned as well, Digger will open in Australian cinemas on October 1 and U.S. cinemas on October 2, 2026.

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