Warner Bros has just dropped the first trailer for the Tom Cruise-starring, Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu-directed Digger, and, well, buckle up.<\/p>\n
A la Cruise’s major studio boss Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder, the actor transforms into another kind of opposite once again: a very blunt, Southern-talking, older potbelly oil baron who may have set off a massive global ecological disaster. His name is Digger Rockwell. He’s the only guy who can fix what looks to be a rapidly melting iceberg crisis, and he’s ordered by the standing U.S. President (John Goodman) to save the day. (Goodman’s Leader of the Free World is a combo of both Trump and Biden, the latter evident in POTUS falling asleep at the wrong time.)<\/p>\n
More from Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n From the looks of this, it’s Doctor Strangelove for the Trump era, or as Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu said in a video introduction reel last week at Warner Bros, “Ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourself, because Mother Nature loves motherf*ckers.”<\/p>\n Also in attendance for last Thursday’s event was Cruse, the actor who constantly has the need for speed, especially when it comes to his curiosity for fresh characters.<\/p>\n Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu, the four-time Oscar winner, began conceiving Digger “just after The Revenant, when I had an idea, not script, not a film, just a relentless recurring obsession, that has endured through all these wild years. I knew who this character was.<\/p>\n “The film needed Tom. We wanted to work together since the beginning of the century,” he said. “I admired him as an actor for years, and that wasn’t a surprise for me. The surprise was discovering that the human being behind the actor was just as extraordinary as the performances I will see throughout his career.”<\/p>\n “The transformation he went through was astonishing,” added Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu, with Cruise telling him, “‘It took me 40 years to become this character.'”<\/p>\n RELATED: <\/strong>Is Tom Cruise Finally Going To Win A Competitive Oscar With ‘Digger’? The Vegas Odds Just Went Up \u2013 CinemaCon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Cruise was a longtime fan of the director’s breakout 2000 film Amores Perros, and when he was pitched Digger Rockwell, the Risky Business star said, “Alejandro, he shows me, he’s like, ‘I want you to look like this.’ And it wasn’t like he said, ‘This is the kind of character.’ So, I’m thinking, ‘This guy’s got f*cking balls,’ and I’m like, ‘I can’t wait. Let’s go.'”<\/p>\n Expounding more on his process, Cruise said, “Whether it’s Les Grossman or Interview With the Vampire, Collateral or Risky Business, I’m always asking, ‘How do I communicate this?’ The physicality, the makeup, that is stuff that you find as you are learning how to communicate.”<\/p>\n He added, “You really have to understand the tools \u2014 it’s not one size fits all. You have to find the communication, the lenses, the color of the makeup. The level of detail of making a film like this is\u2026 Color of the cowboy boots. What are my shorts like? The sets, the color of the sets. They’re beautiful on every single level, and it’s all very\u2026 You look at the taste of this man. It’s very special.”<\/p>\n Digger was shot in VistaVision on a 1954-designed camera, and for the production Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu reteamed with his Oscar-winning The Revenant cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki.<\/p>\n Cruise said at the event, “I think when you see Digger, just the level of detail, the skill, the layers of making this film\u2026 He’s (Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu) never made something like this before, nor have I.”<\/p>\n We’re told this is the same trailer that was first shown to exhibitors at April’s CinemaCon<\/a>.<\/p>\n Digger hits theaters October 2.<\/p>\n Best of Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Deadline’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warner Bros has just dropped the first trailer for the Tom Cruise-starring, Alejandro G. 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