Published Jun 23, 2026, 12:01 PM EDT
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That sound you hear is probably **Tom Cruise **running. Running toward something, running from something, quite possibly running between some things. But what we do know is that he’s been running into our hearts for decades now. Before he heads back onto the big, big, big screen this fall with a new film from Alejandro G. Iñárritu, fans are getting a first look at what Cruise has been working on next. A new career-spanning retrospective has debuted with a surprise sneak peek of Digger tucked in at the end.
The new retrospective has looked back across the 40-plus-year career that Cruise has treated us to, showing off the depth of his film choices and the impact he’s made on cinema from Risky Business and Top Gun to Jerry Maguire, Magnolia, Collateral, Edge of Tomorrow, and the Mission: Impossible franchise. But the biggest talking point is likely to be the brief first footage from Digger, Cruise’s upcoming thriller from Warner Bros. Pictures.
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
The film stars Cruise in the title role of Digger Rockwell, who’s been described as the most powerful man in the world, but when a disaster of his own making threatens to destroy everything, Digger launches into a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s savior. Presumably, running was a contractual obligation for Digger’s heroics at this stage, but we’ll see. If nothing else, it sounds pretty high stakes and high octane. We’re sure Cruise can stretch to that.
The film also features Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal), John Goodman (The Big Lebowski), Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall), Michael Stuhlbarg (Call Me by Your Name), and Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog). Iñárritu produces alongside Mary Parent, Cruise, and Michael Sharp, with Joshua Grode serving as executive producer.
The whole film has been shot in VistaVision, and it marks Cruise’s first collaboration with Iñárritu, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind Birdman, The Revenant, and Babel. Iñárritu directs from a screenplay he co-wrote with Alexander Dinelaris, Nicolás Giacobone, and Sabina Berman.
Digger arrives exclusively in theaters and IMAX on October 2, 2026.
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Sabina Berman, Alexander Dinelaris