Tom Cruise has traded the six-pack for a belly and the jawline for a combover. The final trailer for Digger, out this week, gives us our best look yet at Digger Rockwell, an oil tycoon whose company sets off an ecological disaster and who then spends the rest of the film trying to convince everyone he's the man to fix it.

Grey hair, prosthetics, a Southern drawl thick enough to cut, per The Hindu's description of the footage. This isn't Maverick. Cruise plays Rockwell as deeply, almost comically self-important, a man scrambling to preserve his reputation while the world burns behind him. "We trust Digger!" the trailer declares at one point, even as the film keeps needling the question of whether he caused the whole mess in the first place.

The director is Alejandro G. Iñárritu, working in English for the first time in about a decade, according to The Hindu. He's called Digger a disaster movie where humanity itself is the disaster, which tracks with a trailer that leans hard into satire and dark comedy rather than straight-faced spectacle. Iñárritu developed the project over roughly ten years, so this has been a long time coming.

Who else is in it

John Goodman turns up as the US president who leans on Digger to help contain the crisis, per The Hindu. Riz Ahmed, Sandra Hüller, Michael Stuhlbarg and Jesse Plemons round out a cast that also includes Sophie Wilde, Emma D'Arcy, Burn Gorman and Robert John Burke. Pip Torrens features too, though Bollywood Hungama's report doesn't list him among the principal cast it names.

Behind the camera, Iñárritu has brought back regulars Emmanuel Lubezki on cinematography and Stephen Mirrione on editing, with Conor O'Neill co-editing. The whole thing was shot on VistaVision, the same widescreen format that's been showing up across prestige productions lately, which should make for a properly big canvas in IMAX.

When you can watch it

Digger opens in Indian cinemas and IMAX on October 2, distributed here by Warner Bros. Pictures. That's a fairly quick turnaround from a final trailer landing barely three weeks out, which suggests the studio is fairly confident about where the film stands.

Cruise is about to start the press rounds too. Extra TV reports he's set to appear on The Jennifer Hudson Show as part of the promotional run, the first confirmed stop on what will presumably be a busier circuit as October 2 gets closer. Whether Indian audiences take to a satire this odd, playing an American star this transformed, is the actual question worth asking once the reviews start landing.