{"id":723646,"date":"2026-06-24T19:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/723646\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T19:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:03:09","slug":"j-j-abrams-says-tom-cruise-is-about-to-blow-our-mind-with-digger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/723646\/","title":{"rendered":"J.J. Abrams Says Tom Cruise Is “About To Blow Our Mind” With ‘Digger’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJ.J. Abrams says he has seen \u201ca taste\u201d of Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu\u2019s upcoming Tom Cruise<\/a> starrer Digger<\/a> and has \u201cno doubt\u201d the actor is \u201cabout to blow our collective mind\u201d with his performance.<\/p>\n

\n\tAbrams was responding to a viral post from Cruise yesterday in which the megastar posted a career retrospective and teased some new footage of the Warner Bros film.<\/p>\n

My dear friend is no doubt about to blow our collective mind with Digger. What an undeniably spectacular career. What a bold and wild next step. Only seen a taste of the film\u2026 cannot wait for October to see the rest! https:\/\/t.co\/KdDqdJbZzG<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 JJ Abrams (@jjabrams) June 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tIn Digger, Cruise will adopt a thick Southern accent, a beer belly and thinning white hair to play an oil baron whose company may have set off an ecological disaster that could also spark a nuclear war. John Goodman portrays a U.S. president. Riz Ahmed, Sandra H\u00fcller, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Jesse Plemons also star in the Warner Bros production.<\/p>\n

\n\tAbrams said in a post on X today: \u201cMy dear friend is no doubt about to blow our collective mind with Digger. What an undeniably spectacular career. What a bold and wild next step. Only seen a taste of the film\u2026 cannot wait for October to see the rest!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCruise and Abrams are known to be admirers of each other\u2019s work and first collaborated on 2006 blockbuster Mission: Impossible III.<\/p>\n

\n\tCruise\u2019s post has garnered more than 10M views and has been liked or commented on by many in the industry. Cruise\u2019s Top Gun: Maverick co-star Glen Powell is the latest, calling Cruise the \u201cbest of the best\u201d.<\/p>\n

\n\tDigger\u2018s trailer is set for release on July 13th ahead of the film\u2019s October 2 release. The anticipated film was widely speculated as a potential Venice Film Festival title but Deadline revealed earlier this year that the Lido isn\u2019t a likely destination for the feature.<\/p>\n

\n\tCruise\u2019s mini retrospective posted yesterday spotlighted some of his great roles, from Top Gun to Rain Man, Born On The Fourth Of July to Jerry Maguire.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFor 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,\u201d he wrote in the caption of his social post. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to seeing you at the movies!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"J.J. Abrams says he has seen \u201ca taste\u201d of Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu\u2019s upcoming Tom Cruise starrer Digger and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[201061,88,245285,206,4520],"class_list":["post-723646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-digger","tag-entertainment","tag-jj-abrams","tag-movies","tag-tom-cruise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}