{"id":911351,"date":"2026-09-30T19:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911351\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T19:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:26:10","slug":"tom-cruises-digger-original-title-was-blah-blah-blah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911351\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise’s ‘Digger’ Original Title Was ‘Blah, Blah, Blah’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cDigger<\/a>\u201d isn\u2019t what many would consider a great title for a movie. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe title is based Tom Cruise<\/a>\u2018s oil baron character in the film, Digger Rockwell, but it doesn\u2019t really tell the audience what the movie is about, or suggest high amounts of intrigue, excitement or drama. <\/p>\n

\n\tBut if you\u2019re wondering how the studio bosses at Warner Bros. and Legendary got behind the title, it\u2019s much easier to understand once you learn the film\u2019s original title. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn an interview with IndieWire<\/a>, director Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu<\/a> revealed he initially wanted to call the film Blah, Blah, Blah. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c[Blah, Blah, Blah] was a reference to this incredible, terrible, terrifying weapon that we as humans have, which is the tongue,\u201d I\u00f1\u00e1rritu said. \u201cIt can change your perception of the reality that your body is experiencing. It can make you believe in something that you don\u2019t see.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGiven the film\u2019s extremely polarized \u2014 some scathing<\/a> \u2014 reviews, one can only imagine all the fun critics would have had reviewing the film if it had been titled Blah, Blah, Blah. <\/p>\n

\n\tI\u00f1\u00e1rritu also praised the studios for taking a big bet on the film, which has an estimated budget of $125 million. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn the world of fear we are living in, everybody wants certainty,\u201d I\u00f1\u00e1rritu said. \u201cThis film is not any of that. For it to be made and to nail the tone was a big bet. But to their credit, Warner Bros. and Legendary were really bold. They never hesitated. They believed in this film \u2014 the urgency, the absurdity, the humanity, the nowness that it has.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile reviews are still coming in, so far Digger has a 53 percent positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes across 113 reviews, a split that almost perfectly reflects the polarized response to the film.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Tuesday, Warners launched an online ad that pushed back on critics<\/a>, urging moviegoers to see the film and then \u201cdecide for yourself.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t Digger opens in theaters Friday, Oct. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDigger\u201d isn\u2019t what many would consider a great title for a movie. The title is based Tom Cruise\u2018s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[295611,64,63,447,295612,134,17689],"class_list":["post-911351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-alejandro-g-iu00f1u00e1rritu","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-digger","tag-entertainment","tag-tom-cruise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}