{"id":191791,"date":"2025-12-18T19:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/191791\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T19:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:52:08","slug":"tom-cruise-reveals-first-trailer-for-his-new-comedy-digger-from-oscar-winning-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/191791\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise Reveals First Trailer For His New Comedy Digger From Oscar-Winning Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Tom Cruise&#8217;s stint in the <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/mission-impossible-movies-chronological-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mission: Impossible franchise<\/a> has seemingly come to an end, the action star is ready for his next project.<\/p>\n<p>On X, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomCruise\/status\/2001683996699459840\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Cruise<\/a> shared his next movie with Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu, which is revealed to be called Digger. The tagline is that it&#8217;s a &#8220;comedy of catastrophic proportions&#8221; and is set for release in October 2026. The film&#8217;s poster shows its title forming what is supposed to be Cruise&#8217;s character in the movie, holding a shovel and wearing cowboy boots on an orange background, Saul Bass style.<\/p>\n<p>Just minutes later, Warner Bros. shared an official teaser. Check it below: <\/p>\n<p>While holding a shovel, Cruise is seen dancing extravagantly, as he has previously done in films such as Risky Business or Tropic Thunder. Then, the <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/top-gun-characters-ranked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Top Gun star<\/a> is seen standing and walking on a pier railing. Again, Cruise appears to do so while dancing.<\/p>\n<p>The movie&#8217;s plot has been kept secret up to this point, but it&#8217;s clear that Cruise is playing the titular character, Digger Rockwell. The upcoming comedy also stars John Goodman, Riz Ahmed, Michael Stuhlbarg, Emma D\u2019Arcy, Sophie Wilde, Sandra H\u00fcller, and <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/jesse-plemons-best-movies-tv-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jesse Plemons<\/a>. The film was co-written by I\u00f1\u00e1rritu, former Birdman writers Alexander Dinelaris and Nicol\u00e1s Giacobone, and Sabina Berman.<\/p>\n<p>Before the reveal, Cruise shared a 2024 rehearsal set photo alongside I\u00f1\u00e1rritu. He expressed being deeply moved by working alongside the Academy Award-winning director, who handed him an <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/oscars-tom-cruise-acceptance-speech-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards<\/a> in November. Cruise also mentioned being a long-time fan of I\u00f1\u00e1rritu, saying that he watched Amores Perros 25 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>        <img width=\"1650\" height=\"928\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tom Cruise standing on a railing in Digger\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tom-cruise-standing-on-a-railing-in-digger.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tom-cruise-standing-on-a-railing-in-digger.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n        Tom Cruise standing on a railing in Digger<\/p>\n<p>I\u00f1\u00e1rritu, known for films such as 21 Grams \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200band Biutiful, spoke highly of Cruise in an October interview. He called his on-set relationship with Cruise &#8220;amazing&#8221; and &#8220;sweet,&#8221; and praised the actor&#8217;s passion and integrity. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu added that Cruise&#8217;s role in Digger &#8220;will surprise the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Talking about the movie itself, the critically acclaimed director called it a &#8220;new kind of thing,&#8221; adding that it is a challenging &#8220;wild comedy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shot in the United Kingdom in 2024 and early 2025, Digger is I\u00f1\u00e1rritu&#8217;s first English-language movie since The Revenant, the 2015 film that won Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Cinematography, and <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/leonardo-dicaprio-oscar-snubs-movies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a>. His last film was Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, released on Netflix in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that Tom Cruise&#8217;s stint in the Mission: Impossible franchise has seemingly come to an end, the action&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-191791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}