‘Digger,’ Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu
With Warner Bros. support, Digger will be this year’s event of the Lido.
The studio has dated Iñárritu’s first English-language film since The Revenant for U.S. release on October 2, the same frame that Joker claimed in 2019 weeks after winning Venice’s Golden Lion.
Billed as “a comedy of catastrophic proportions,” Tom Cruise stars as Digger Rockwell, “the most powerful man in the world,” racing to prove he’s humanity’s savior before a disaster of his own making destroys everything.
Although technically a studio comedy, the $125 million film is suffused with awards season pedigree.
Emmanuel Lubezki shot Digger on 35mm VistaVision, and Sandra Hüller, Jesse Plemons, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Riz Ahmed, Sophie Wilde and Emma D’Arcy fill out the production.
Iñárritu is also a Venice regular — 21 Grams, Birdman (en route to winning the Best Picture Oscar), and Bardo also premiered there.
Cruise got his fighter-jet moment in Cannes Fest just a few years ago with Top Gun: Maverick; it’s time now for an armada of water taxis.
