Hot on Instagram this AM: Warner Bros and Legendary’s new Tom Cruise movie directed by 4x Oscar winner Alejandro González Iñárritu has been titled Digger and will hit theaters on Oct. 2, 2026 — that’s the prized frame where Warner Bros/DC’s Joker bowed in 2019.
The tagline for the pic on the poster is “a comedy of catastrophic proportions.” There was buzz out there that the movie was about the most powerful global figure who tries to convince everyone he’s a savior. See the poster below.
González Iñárritu told us at Cannes in response to that, “No, the thing that I can tell you. This is a wild comedy of catastrophic proportions. It’s insane. He makes me laugh every day. The range that I discovered working with Tom is unprecedented for me as a director. I was so fu*king impressed and happy.”
Digger is González Iñárritu’s first movie since directing 2022’s Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths for Netflix. The Mexico-born filmmaker won the Academy Award for Best Director for the 2015 Leonardo DiCaprio western The Revenant and three Oscars for Best Picture, Directing and Original Screenplay for 2016’s Birdman, starring Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Ed Norton and Zach Galifianakis.
The teaser shows Cruise in cowboy boots dancing with a shovel in what looks to be a Los Angeles type of low-rent apartment, as well as on a pier. He appears to be a bit disheveled.
Also opening on Oct. 2 next year is Amazon MGM Studios Verity, the feature take of the Colleen Hoover novel starring Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway, directed by Michael Showalter.