Digger brings together two personalities you wouldn’t necessarily expect to share a project: Tom Cruise, a cornerstone of American action cinema, and Alejandro González Iñárritu, the filmmaker behind Birdman, The Revenant, and Bardo. Their movie will hit French theaters on September 30, 2026. The trailer casts Cruise as the most powerful man in the world, embarking on a mission to save humanity after he’s inadvertently triggered a planetary catastrophe.
Digger
Film | 2026
Theatrical release: September 30, 2026
Action, comedy
Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu | Starring Tom Cruise, Sandra Hüller, Riz Ahmed, John Goodman
Screenplay: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Sabina Berman, Alexander Dinelaris and Nicolás Giacobone
Countries: United States, Mexico, United Kingdom
Distributor: Warner Bros. France
Tom Cruise stars as Digger Rockwell, billed as the most powerful man on the planet. After triggering a catastrophe with the potential to wipe out the world, his character launches a mission to present himself as humanity’s savior. The trailer leans into this paradox: the man who claims he can solve the crisis is also the one who started it.
The role twists several traits routinely linked to Tom Cruise characters: the confidence to seize control, an insistence on not failing, and the savior-hero stance. In Digger, that self-assurance lies at the heart of a globe-spanning comedy, with an actor transformed by makeup and noticeably distant from the usual image of his action-hero personas.
The film marks the first collaboration between Tom Cruise and Alejandro G. Iñárritu. It is also the director’s first English-language feature since The Revenant. Iñárritu co-writes the screenplay with Sabina Berman, Alexander Dinelaris and Nicolás Giacobone, the latter two having previously teamed with him on Birdman.
Around Tom Cruise, the cast also includes Sandra Hüller, Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Jesse Plemons, Michael Stuhlbarg and Sophie Wilde. The exact roles of most of their characters have not yet been detailed in the film's French-language materials.
The official trailer for Digger
The video does not yet reveal the exact nature of the disaster or how Digger intends to stop it. It does, however, clearly set up the character’s paradox: the man who wants to be the planet’s savior is also the one who unleashed the threat.
Digger isn’t so much about a disaster as it is about what it does to Tom Cruise: the actor portrays a man convinced he can regain control of a catastrophe he himself triggered. Under Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s direction, this savior archetype becomes the film’s comic engine as much as its central flaw.
To plan your upcoming screenings, also check out our guide to films à voir au cinéma en septembre 2026, the films à voir en ce moment, and our pick of films d’action et blockbusters à voir au cinéma.
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