The comedy marks Cruise’s first collaboration with “The Revenant” and “Birdman” director Alejandro G. Iñárritu.

Tom Cruise shares teaser for Digger, his first role after Mission Impossible: ‘A comedy of catastrophic proportions’

The comedy marks Cruise's first collaboration with "The Revenant" and "Birdman" director Alejandro G. Iñárritu.

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December 18, 2025 1:49 p.m. ET

Tom Cruise; 'The Digger' teaser. Credit:

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Tom Cruise unveiled the first look at his upcoming comedy with *The Revenant* director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, and it's definitely different from what fans have come to expect with the action star.

On Thursday, the *Mission: Impossible* star and Warner Bros. released a short teaser for *Digger*, which the film poster describes as "A comedy of catastrophic proportions."

The exact plot is still under wraps, and the teaser doesn't shed any further light — aside from establishing the fact that Cruise's character is deeply devoted to his shovel. In the video, a silhouetted Cruise is shown dancing with said shovel in his hands, bending down on one knee at one point and standing on top of a fence of what appears to be an ocean-side boardwalk at another.

Tom Cruise in 'Digger'.

Warner Bros. Pictures

Cruise stars as the titular character, Digger Rockwell, alongside Sandra Huller, Jesse Plemons, John Goodman, Riz Ahmed, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sophie Wilde, and Emma D’Arcy.

"Let's f***ing go!," Cruise captioned the X post in which he shared the title announcement.**

*Digger* marks the first film in which Cruise has appeared in that isn't within the *Mission: Impossible *or *Top Gun* franchises since 2017, when he released *American Made* and *The Mummy*. It's also his first collaboration with the four-time Academy Award-winning director.

The film marks González Iñárritu's first movie since directing 2022's *Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths* for Netflix, and his first English-language film since 2015's *The Revenant.*

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The movie was co-written by Iñárritu, Alexander Dinelaris, Nicolas Giacobone, and Sabrina Berman. According to the logline on IMDb, the film follows the "most powerful man in the world" racing to prove he can save humanity before the destruction he unleashes destroys everything.

Alejandro González Iñárritu. John Phillips/Getty Images

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"All I can say is it is a brutal, wild comedy of catastrophic proportions. It's insane. It's scary and funny and beautiful. I know comedy is not what people expect from me, or Tom, and making this film was terrifying for me," Iñárritu previously told Deadline while at Cannes in May. "But I don't like to repeat myself, and every film should scare you a little. I felt *Birdman* was a comedy, a dark comedy, and this one was challenging like that."

He added, "And Tom makes me laugh every single day. The range that I discovered working with Tom is unprecedented for me as a director. I was so f---ing impressed and happy."

Watch the teaser for *Digger *above, which releases in theaters October 2026.**

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