‘Digger’ Trailer: Tom Cruise Transforms Into an Eccentric Billionaire Facing an Eco-Disaster in Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Absurdist Comedy
“I have never had something that could challenge me in this way, and neither has Alejandro,” Cruise said, about starring in “Digger,” the black comedy...
Key points
- “I have never had something that could challenge me in this way, and neither has Alejandro,” Cruise said, about starring in “Digger,” the black comedy from two-time Academy Award-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu.
- film is Iñárritu’s first English-language film since “The Revenant.” Cruise stars as Digger Rockwell, sporting a thick Southern accent, a pot belly and thinning white hair (fashioned in an unconvincing combover) to play the oil baron (“the most powerful man in the world”) whose company may have set off an ecological disaster that could also spark a nuclear war.
- “Digger” might be Iñárritu and Cruise’s first collaboration, but Cruise has been a fan of the two-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker (“Birdman,” “The Revenant”) since he got an early preview of Iñárritu’s debut feature, 2000’s “Amores Perros.” “What a brilliant film.
- Then, about seven years ago, Iñárritu pitched Cruise the idea for “Digger.” Instead of mailing over a finished screenplay — which is based on a script Iñárritu co-wrote in 2023 with “Birdman” co-writers Nicolas Giacobone and Alexander Dinelaris, along with Sabina Berman — Iñárritu and Cruise spent several days together with the director reading the script to his potential star.
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“I have never had something that could challenge me in this way, and neither has Alejandro,” Cruise said, about starring in “Digger,” the black comedy from two-time Academy Award-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu. film is Iñárritu’s first English-language film since “The Revenant.” Cruise stars as Digger Rockwell, sporting a thick Southern accent, a pot belly and thinning white hair (fashioned in an unconvincing combover) to play the oil baron (“the most powerful man in the world”) whose company may have set off an ecological disaster that could also spark a nuclear war. “Digger” might be Iñárritu and Cruise’s first collaboration, but Cruise has been a fan of the two-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker (“Birdman,” “The Revenant”) since he got an early preview of Iñárritu’s debut feature, 2000’s “Amores Perros.” “What a brilliant film. Then, about seven years ago, Iñárritu pitched Cruise the idea for “Digger.” Instead of mailing over a finished screenplay — which is based on a script Iñárritu co-wrote in 2023 with “Birdman” co-writers Nicolas Giacobone and Alexander Dinelaris, along with Sabina Berman — Iñárritu and Cruise spent several days together with the director...