New DIGGER Trailer Puts Tom Cruise in a Flashy Suit and a Bloody Forehead
The campaign is selling Cruise against type: a potbellied, white-haired CEO who caused the disaster he is ordered to clean up, rather than the hero who averts it.
Reporting from 1 source: Cinema Today.
A new trailer and visual for DIGGER, the Tom Cruise film directed by Alejandro G. Inarritu, arrived ahead of its October 9 opening in Japan. Cruise plays Digger Rockwell, an oil drilling CEO whose profit-first decisions trigger a crisis threatening Earth's destruction. The trailer carries the tagline "With great power comes great evasion of responsibility." Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Huller and Michael Stuhlbarg co-star.
The trailer leans on Digger Rockwell's refusal to take the crisis seriously. Ordered by the President to clean up the mess he caused, he worries aloud about the criticism he will face instead: "What kind of criticism do you think those who see me as the devil will throw at me?"
Cruise appears with white hair and a potbelly, and says it took him 40 years to be able to play the role. Jesse Plemons plays a mysterious man who sizes Digger up as "ridiculous, terrifying, comical, foolish." The new visual shows Cruise in a flashy suit, shovel in hand, blood running from his forehead.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.