The Alejandro G. Iñárritu film, shot entirely in VistaVision, opens in US theaters and IMAX on October 2 after a Monday night premiere at Directors Village.
Tom Cruise walked the carpet at Directors Village in Los Angeles on Monday night, four days out from Digger's Friday release, and he didn't come alone.
Ahmed, Sandra Hüller, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse Plemons and Emma D'Arcy rounded out the lineup for what was billed as the film's Los Angeles premiere, distinct from the world premiere the film already had in London, where Cruise was photographed alongside Indian actor Avneet Kaur. Cruise, 64, showed up in a dark Armani suit, open collar, no tie, and did the thing he's always done at these events. Stopped for the fans lined up outside. Signed autographs. Took selfies before heading in for the photo call.
The spouses turned up too. Ahmed brought his wife, author Fatima Farheen Mirza. Goodman had Anna Beth Goodman on his arm. And Plemons walked in with Kirsten Dunst, in a black dress with pale blue heels, which is its own small event given how rarely the two do premieres together.
The film itself is the bigger story here. Digger marks Alejandro G. Iñárritu's first English-language feature since The Revenant, and that gap is long enough that expectations have had years to build. Cruise plays Digger Rockwell, a man Just Jared's writeup describes, quoting the film's own marketing, as "the most powerful man in the world," who's racing to prove he's humanity's savior before a disaster he set off wipes everything out. Cruise also produces.
The technical detail trade press keeps circling back to is the format. Digger was shot entirely in VistaVision, the wide-gauge process Paramount pioneered in the 1950s and that's had something of a revival lately in prestige filmmaking. It's going out in US theaters and IMAX on October 2, and how that translates to screen size and clarity in IMAX houses will be part of what critics weigh in on this week.
For Indian audiences, the immediate question isn't the format. It's whether Digger even gets a local release, and if it does, what the CBFC makes of it. That conversation's already started online, going by chatter around the film's rating, but nothing official has come from the board or from any Indian distributor yet.
What's confirmed right now is simple. Friday, US and IMAX. Whether Digger crosses over the way Iñárritu's last English-language film did, and whether India gets a date at all, stays open until someone with the paperwork says otherwise.
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