First extended look at Tom Cruise's role in Digger

A new promotional video released on Tuesday, June 23, offers the first extended look at Tom Cruise’s transformative role in the upcoming satirical comedy Digger, directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu. The film is scheduled for release on October 2, 2026.

The nearly three-minute video, distributed by Warner Bros., functions as a career retrospective for the 63-year-old star, highlighting clips from films spanning his four-decade career, including Top Gun, Mission: Impossible, Jerry Maguire, and Tropic Thunder. The final 30 seconds reveal new footage from Digger, showcasing Cruise’s radical physical transformation into the eccentric oil tycoon Digger Rockwell.

In the brief scenes, Cruise appears under heavy aging makeup, with thinning white hair, a prosthetic belly, and a thick Southern accent. He is seen wearing a dark red suit, cowboy hat, and boots, energetically pacing and declaring, "When all else fails, you hit 'em with the truth. The hard truth. Just bang, bang, bang!"

According to descriptions from a presentation at CinemaCon in April, the film is a "comedy of catastrophic proportions." The plot follows Rockwell, described as the world's most...