Warner Bros. pulled back the curtain on Tom Cruise‘s next role. The studio’s newly released trailer reveals a completely different look for Cruise as an aging oil tycoon.
Thanks to extensive prosthetics and gray hair, Cruise looks noticeably older and heavier than audiences are used to seeing him. The 64-year-old star headlines Alejandro González Iñárritu‘s upcoming dark comedy, “Digger,” which is set for an October 2, 2026 theatrical release.
The trailer gives audiences their most awaited and detailed look yet at Cruise’s transformation, which had been deliberately kept hidden until now.
Tom Cruise’s dramatic transformation stuns fans in first Digger trailer
The Tom Cruise transformation centers on his role as Digger Rockwell, a billionaire businessman attempting to prove that he can fix an ecological disaster caused by his own company.
The trailer shows Cruise in heavy prosthetics and a thick Southern drawl. It is quite different from the action-hero image he built across the “Mission: Impossible” and “Top Gun” franchises.
The Digger movie is Cruise’s first film outside a major franchise since 2017’s “American Made” and his first project since 2025’s “Mission: Impossible- The Final Reckoning,”. It is one of the highest-grossing films of his career.
At a recent CinemaCon appearance in April, Cruise said working on the role took 40 years to reach. He described the character as one of the biggest challenges of his career.
The Digger trailer also introduces a lineup that includes John Goodman, Sandra Hüller, Jesse Plemons, Riz Ahmed, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Emma D’Arcy.
Iñárritu has described the project as a “comedy of catastrophic proportions.” During Warner Bros.’ event, Iñárritu sent a video from London. He said the idea for the film came to him shortly after he finished directing “The Revenant,” the Oscar-winning film released in 2015. He then spent years developing the project before approaching Cruise around seven years ago.
Cruise said that the film is unlike anything that he has worked on.
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Originally reported by Ashnagaur on Reality Tea.
