Tom Cruise Is Channeling His ‘Tropic Thunder’ Energy Again, Playing a Corrupt Oil Billionaire Under Heavy Prosthetics in His New Movie ‘Digger’

Are you ready for the newest Tom Cruise movie?

In it, Cruise plays Digger Rockwell, an oil tycoon who caused a global disaster and now has to race to save the world from his own mess. It’s Iñárritu directing, with a cast that runs from John Goodman to Sandra Hüller.

The title says “Digg. Or Die. DIGGER.” and Cruise dropped the poster himself on July 13 with a hard release date: October 2. He’s in a suit, cowboy hat and bolo tie, one foot on a globe, holding a shovel against a surreal mural.

Alejandro G. Iñárritu, the director behind Birdman and The Revenant, is calling it a comedy of catastrophic proportions. Cruise plays Digger Rockwell, the most powerful man on the planet, a corrupt oil tycoon who set off a global disaster and is now racing to sell himself as humanity’s savior.

In Tropic Thunder (2008), Cruise disappeared under a bald cap, prosthetic hands and a fat suit to play a vulgar, dancing Hollywood mogul, and it’s still one of the most acclaimed comic swings of his career. Digger is the same move at feature length: heavy prosthetics, largely unrecognizable, a grotesque portrait of unchecked power instead of the usual action hero.

One line already out from the film gives you the tone: “When all else fails, you hit ’em with the truth. Hit ’em with the hard truth. Just bang, bang, bang! Whoo! Whoo!”

The ensemble is stacked: John Goodman as the President, plus Sandra Hüller, Jesse Plemons, Riz Ahmed, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sophie Wilde and Emma D’Arcy.

Warner Bros. shot it on VistaVision with an IMAX push. The campaign started with a December teaser set to Gorillaz’ “O Green World,” rolled new footage at CinemaCon in April to Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing,” dropped a teaser trailer on June 23, and landed today’s poster as the next escalation.

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