Tom Cruise returns to save the world – but this time with a comedic twist – in Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s film diggerwith a special look arriving at CinemaCon.
Warner Bros. offered Project during a presentation held at the studio in Las Vegas on Tuesday, with both Cruz and Iñárritu in attendance and receiving a big round of applause upon their arrival.
“I want to thank you all for everything you’re doing,” Cruz, the industry’s leading advocate for theaters, told theater owners and distributors and celebrated by adding that “we’re up 23 percent so far” at the box office. “My movie family, you know I’m here for you and I love you,” Cruise said.
Iñárritu explained that he first came up with the idea digger Nine years ago, and he and Cruz have been talking about it for the past seven years. “When I watched Tom Cruise transform into Digger Rockwell, I wasn’t prepared for it,” the director continued, adding that he wasn’t afraid of his own stunts but that “portraying this character, that’s another kind of bravery… This role may be his most challenging.”
Cruz spoke very enthusiastically about his collaboration with Iñárritu in return, saying that this type of film is the reason I want to make films. He added: “The film is wild and funny and I can’t wait for you all to see it.”
In the footage, Cruise appears unrecognizable, with gray hair, wrinkles and gut as he struts around his mansion and breastfeeds his sick cat. It soon becomes clear that Digger is the billionaire CEO of a major corporation who is causing an environmental disaster via a methane leak that threatens to displace millions of people. John Goodman shows up as the boss, urging Cruise’s character to fix it, so he proceeds to do so by literally grabbing a shovel. “We cannot control the course of nature,” he declares, “at least we can control the narrative.”
The film, which also stars Sandra Holler, Jesse Plemons, John Goodman, Riz Ahmed, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sophie Wilde and Emma D’Arcy, is described as a “comedy of apocalyptic proportions.”
“All I can say is that it’s a brutal, wild comedy of catastrophic proportions,” Iñárritu said while in Cannes last year. “It’s crazy. It’s scary and funny and beautiful. I know that comedy is not what people expect from me, or from Tom, and making this movie was terrifying for me.” “But I don’t like to repeat myself, and every movie should scare you a little bit. I felt that way Birdman It was a comedy, a dark comedy, and it was challenging in that way. And Tom makes me laugh every day. “He has this complete commitment, this complete madness,” he added. The film is scheduled to be released in theaters on October 2.
CinemaCon, the annual gathering of movie theater owners and Hollywood studios, is hosted in Las Vegas by Cinema United, formerly known as the National Association of Theater Owners. This year’s edition will be held from April 13 to 16.
