{"id":493103,"date":"2026-06-24T10:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/493103\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T10:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:33:17","slug":"tom-cruises-next-film-has-the-weirdest-trailer-ive-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/493103\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise’s Next Film Has The Weirdest Trailer I’ve Seen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Cruise\u2019s next movie, Digger, isn\u2019t a big action film, sci-fi mystery, or some other variety of typical summer blockbuster. Instead, his next film has him playing what sounds like a villainous role in what appears to be his big push to finally win an Oscar. And Warner Bros.\u2019 first trailer for the movie is centered entirely around hyping us up for Tom Cruise, one of the last true movie stars. It\u2019s weird.<\/p>\n

On June 23, WB released the first trailer for Digger. (That\u2019s not counting a short \u201ctitle announcement\u201d video<\/a> that was released about six months ago.) But if you were expecting two to three minutes of scenes from the upcoming movie starring Cruise, well, you\u2019ll be disappointed. Despite being around three minutes long, this first teaser trailer for Digger only contains about 30 seconds of footage from the upcoming movie, which was directed by Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu, and which stars Cruise as a powerful oil tycoon trying to save the world from the \u201cdisaster he unleashed.\u201d Here\u2019s the trailer, which WB is calling the \u201cTom Cruise Retrospective Trailer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Weird, huh? Anyway, I\u2019m actually pretty pumped to see Digger. I think Cruise is a more versatile actor than people give him credit for, and this role and film seem designed around letting him try something totally different. Maybe it all falls apart and it\u2019s a disaster, but even that sounds more interesting than Tom Cruise doing another safe action movie sequel. He\u2019s done so many of those, most of which I enjoyed, that it feels like it\u2019s time to try something different.<\/p>\n

Alongside Cruise, Digger\u2018s cast includes Jesse Plemons, Riz Ahmed, Sophie Wilde, Emma D\u2019Arcy, and John Goodman. You put Goodman and Plemons in a movie, and I\u2019m ready to show up day one. Cruise is just a fun bonus.\u00a0Digger is out this October in theaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise\u2019s next movie, Digger, isn\u2019t a big action film, sci-fi mystery, or some other variety of typical…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6374,156,409,111,139,69,7629,2983,247025],"class_list":["post-493103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-digger","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tom-cruise","tag-trailer","tag-wb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}