{"id":878555,"date":"2025-12-18T19:47:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/18\/tom-cruise-and-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritus-new-movie-titled-digger-sets-october-2026-release-date\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T19:47:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:47:54","slug":"tom-cruise-and-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritus-new-movie-titled-digger-sets-october-2026-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/18\/tom-cruise-and-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritus-new-movie-titled-digger-sets-october-2026-release-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise and Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu\u2019s New Movie Titled \u2018Digger,\u2019 Sets October 2026 Release Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tAlejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/film\/global\/tom-cruise-alejandro-inarritu-film-uk-shoot-1236186267\/\">hotly anticipated next film<\/a> starring Tom Cruise has set a fall release date and unveiled its evocative title, \u201cDigger.\u201d A first poster and teaser for the <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/warner-bros-2\/\">Warner Bros<\/a>. and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/legendary-entertainment\/\">Legendary Entertainment<\/a> film was revealed today, with a tagline describing the movie as \u201ca comedy of catastrophic proportions.\u201d It will release on Oct. 2.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DIGGER | Title Announcement\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rd21PhsDHww?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\n\t\u201cDigger,\u201d which shot in the U.K. for six months, marks I\u00f1\u00e1rritu\u2019s first English-language film since \u201cThe Revenant.\u201d The film will be produced and directed by I\u00f1\u00e1rritu, with a script he co-wrote in 2023 with \u201cBirdman\u201d co-writers Nicolas Giacobone and Alexander Dinelaris, along with Sabina Berman. \u201cDigger\u201d is produced by Cruise and I\u00f1\u00e1rritu.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div data-pmc-adm-ad-id=\"1234758890\">\n<h3>\n\t\t\tPopular on Variety\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\tCruise stars as Digger Rockwell. While the exact plot is still under wraps, Warner Bros. provided an enigmatic logline describing Cruise\u2019s character as \u201cthe most powerful man in the world\u201d who \u201cembarks on a frantic mission to prove that he is humanity\u2019s savior before the disaster he\u2019s unleashed destroys everything.\u201d The ensemble cast also includes Sandra H\u00fcller, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse Plemons, Sophie Wilde, Riz Ahmed and Emma D\u2019Arcy. \u201cDigger\u201d is Cruise\u2019s first film since\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/film\/news\/tom-cruise-warner-bros-deal-new-movies-1235866282\/\">signing a deal to develop\u00a0and produce<\/a>\u00a0theatrical films\u00a0with Warner Bros. Discovery in January. His last project with the studio was \u201cEdge of Tomorrow\u201d a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe fall timing of the release suggests \u201cDigger\u201d could premiere at Venice, where I\u00f1\u00e1rritu had presented his last film, \u201cBardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,\u201d which earned an Oscar nomination for best cinematography in 2023; \u201cBirdman,\u201d which won best picture in 2015; and \u201c21 Grams.\u201d I\u00f1\u00e1rritu also has a strong bond with Cannes, having presented there \u201cAmores Perros\u201d which launched his international career 25 years ago, as well as \u201cBabel\u201d and \u201cBiutiful.\u201d The director returned to the Croisette with \u201cFlesh and Sand\u201d (\u201cCarne y Arena\u201d), a virtual-reality short giving viewers the perspective of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border with a coyote. It went on to earned a special achievement Oscar in 2018.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCruise most recently appeared in \u201cMission: Impossible \u2014 The Final Reckoning\u201d and \u201cTop Gun: Maverick.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHere\u2019s the poster for \u201cDigger:\u201d <\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image_c22c97.png?w=819\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image_c22c97.png 1080w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image_c22c97.png?resize=120,150 120w, https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image_c22c97.png?resize=240,300 240w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" height=\"1024\" width=\"819\" decoding=\"async\" ><\/p>\n<figcaption>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/global\/tom-cruise-digger-release-date-october-2026-1236611862\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Elskes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu\u2019s hotly anticipated next film starring Tom Cruise has set a fall release date and unveiled its evocative title, \u201cDigger.\u201d A first poster and teaser for the Warner Bros. and\u00a0Legendary Entertainment film was revealed today, with a tagline describing the movie as \u201ca comedy of catastrophic proportions.\u201d It will release on Oct. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":878556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38352,825,1798],"tags":[146859,10821],"class_list":{"0":"post-878555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alejandro","8":"category-cruise","9":"category-entertainment","10":"tag-alejandro","11":"tag-cruise"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}