Tom Cruise seems to be propelling himself into the Oscars race with wild energy, but it is also the many references that catch the eye, from Chaplin’s The Great Dictator to Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, along with a few delightful nods to the history of cinema. It remains, of course, to be seen whether this profusion of ideas and this visual frenzy serve a real purpose. But this trailer strongly gives that impression.
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Tom Cruise portrays one of the most powerful men in the world who embarks on a frantic mission to convince humanity that he is its savior before the catastrophe he himself caused destroys everything.
Entirely shot in VistaVision, with Emmanuel Lubezki as cinematographer, the film also reunites Riz Ahmed, Sandra Hüller, John Goodman, Jesse Plemons, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sophie Wilde, Emma D’Arcy, Robert John Burke, Burn Gorman and Pip Torrens. Iñárritu also wrote the screenplay with Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Sabina Berman. Digger marks his return to English-language cinema ten years after The Revenant.
Those who have a revolver and those who dig…
Filmed in the United Kingdom during the first half of 2025 for an estimated budget of around 125 million dollars, the film notably benefits from visual effects by Industrial Light & Magic and Legacy Effects.
Digger will be released in French cinemas on September 30, 2026.
It is well known that the world is divided into two categories: those who have a revolver and those who dig. With Digger, Tom Cruise seems determined to do both. And that could hurt.