It’s Tom Cruise like never before in ‘Digger’
When it comes to Hollywood megastars, they don’t get much bigger than Tom Cruise, a blockbuster star whose been delivering incredible cinematic experiences since the 1980s, Cruise’s star power knows no limits, as he’s redefined genre upon genre, and is always looking to push the envelope in order to provide his audience with the most entertaining spectacle out there. And now he’s ready to shake things up like never before in Digger.
Watch the brand new trailer for Digger below:
Here’s the official synopsis:
The most powerful man, oil tycoon Digger Rockwell (Tom Cruise) in the world races to prove he is humanity’s savior before the disaster he unleashed destroys everything.
Teaming up with celebrated filmmaker and Academy Award-winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Digger delivers Cruise the space to truly go-to town to stretch his acting abilities to the limit. Not since his cult cameo appearance as Les Grossman have we seen Cruise go this extreme, and he really goes all out in Digger as the aged, foul-mouthed, take-no-shit force of American capitalism who in finding himself in a severe world-ending crisis is instantly looking for a way to spin it to his own advantage. And the crazy utterly mounts up from there.
The new trailer, set to Talking Heads’s “Burning Down the House” finds Cruise as the completely loco shut-in Digger Rockwell, an old school Texan oil tycoon, who completely flips out and flat out ignores an ecological disaster of his own making, which also happens to incite a new world war, as he goes to any length to ‘spin the narrative’ to his own advantage. And it looks like so much fun.
This trauler is utterly unexpected and delivers some utterly hell raising moments, and fans of Cruise will be in for a real treat as he utterly commits to this completely cuckoo character, and matched with Alejandro G. Iñárritu off-the-wall direction, well, we could very much see a film that could lead to Academy gold for both performers.
We also have to praise the unique look that Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki are bringing to Digger as they perpusefully wanted to make the film appear as ‘cinematic as possible’, and shot in on 35mm film using VistaVision equipped with Leica lenses to really make it stand out. And ohh does it.
For audiences seeking something completely different, and right out of left field, Digger sure does deliver, and its about to get all kinds of crazy as audiences will get Tom Cruise going from 0 – 100 when it arrives in cinemas on October 1.
Image: Warner Brothers Pictures
