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\nThe full trailer is expected to be released on 13 July, with the film out in October<\/p>\n
Tom Cruise transforms into chaotic oil tycoon in upcoming satirical comedy film Digger.<\/p>\n
Known for his death-defying stunts the 63-year-old transformed into a chaotic billionaire Digger Rockwell in a retrospective trailer released on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
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The trailer featured clips from across Cruise’s filmography – including from Top Gun, Mission Impossible and Jerry Maguire – before adding yet another character to the Hollywood star\u2019s film roster, stepping into the shoes of the southern cowboy-like billionaire.<\/p>\n
Around three minutes in, the trailer cuts to a clip of what appears to be Cruise walking out into a hall full of people shouting as he approached them in a dark red suit, cowboy boots and cowboy hat.<\/p>\n
He later appears to be pacing back and forth in dark-lit room with wood panelling and says in a thick southern accent: “If all else fails you hit ’em with the truth.<\/p>\n
“The hard truth. Just bang, bang, bang. Wooo.”<\/p>\n
The trailer for the upcoming Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu film ends with the tagline “A comedy of catastrophic proportions”.<\/p>\n
One of the posters for the film instead said: “Tom Cruise is Digger.<\/p>\n
“A man. A Plan. A Meltdown.”<\/p>\n
\nThe full trailer is expected to be released on 13 July, with the film out in October<\/p>\n
According to Variety, the film follows Digger after his oil company sets off an ecological disaster forcing the billionaire to embark on a mission to save humanity from his own mess.<\/p>\n
Sharing the clip on Instagram, Cruise said: “For the last 46 years, it has been my privilege to work alongside countless talented artists and crews to create these characters, stories, and films for you all.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m looking forward to seeing you at the movies! DIGGER. Only in theaters this October.”<\/p>\n
It will be Cruise\u2019s first film since the 2025 release of Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning.<\/p>\n
It also marks Cruise\u2019s first time working with Academy-award winning filmmaker Inarritu, who was behind 2015\u2019s The Revenant, 2016\u2019s Birdman and 2022\u2019s Bardo: False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths for Netflix.<\/p>\n
The full trailer is expected to be released on 13 July, with the film out in October.<\/p>\n
Source: Press Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise transforms into chaotic oil tycoon in upcoming satirical comedy film Digger. Known for his death-defying stunts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-514944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}