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Cast & Crew Information
- Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Screenwriters: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alexander Dinelaris, Nicolás Giacobone, Sabina Berman, and Jez Butterworth
- Producers: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mary Parent, Tom Cruise, and Michael Sharp
- Executive Producers: Joshua Grode, Alexander Dinelaris, Nicolás Giacobone, Sabina Berman, Jez Butterworth, and Emmanuel Lubezki
- Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki
- Lead Cast:
- Tom Cruise as Digger Rockwell – An eccentric, arrogant Texas billionaire and oil tycoon who sports a complete physical transformation including a southern accent and beer belly.
- Riz Ahmed as Ganesh – An insightful government scientist and advisor who acts as the primary moral compass throughout the crisis.
- John Goodman as President Compson – The loud, old-fashioned President of the United States tasked with containing a global disaster.
- Sandra Hüller as Emma Rockwell – Digger's strong-willed family member navigating the high-stakes fallout.
- Michael Stuhlbarg as Vice President – A high-ranking administration official trying to survive political collapse.
- Jesse Plemons as Kenny – A trusted close associate tied deeply to Digger's operations.
- Burn Gorman as Defense Secretary Amos – A hawkish cabinet member ready to deploy military assets.
Official Synopsis
From Academy Award-winning visionary filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu comes Digger, a sprawling, unhinged black comedy and satirical eco-thriller that lampoons corporate villainy, political ineptitude, and modern climate anxiety. The film centers around Digger Rockwell (Tom Cruise), an incredibly powerful, impulsive, and unyielding Texas oil baron whose massive corporate empire stretches across the globe. Accustomed to always being the most dominant voice in the room, Digger’s absolute hubris pushes him to ignore standard safety protocols for an aggressive new deep-core extraction excursion situated on an expansive glacier in Greenland.
Disaster strikes when the drilling site suffers a catastrophic explosion, causing an unprecedented, continent-sized fissure to rip open across the Arctic landscape. The geological fracture shifts a massive, colossal iceberg directly into the North Atlantic Ocean, sending it on a fast, unstoppable collision course toward Western Europe with the potential to disrupt global trade and cause historic casualties. Rather than taking responsibility for the corporate blunder, Digger shifts into extreme self-preservation mode, launching a manic, highly publicized public relations campaign to convince a terrified populace that he is the only savior capable of resolving the ecological emergency.
As the iceberg looms closer, a desperate President Compson (John Goodman) brings Digger into the White House boardroom to orchestrate a resolution. What follows is a chaotic battle of egos as Digger clashes fiercely with top-tier military personnel, unhinged political advisors, and his own moral in-house scientist, Ganesh (Riz Ahmed). When political talking points fail, the government is forced to resort to drastic, jaw-dropping solutions—including deploying military fighter jets to aggressively bomb the ice sheet into submission. Striking a distinct, dark tone reminiscent of satirical masterpieces like Dr. Strangelove, Digger serves as an over-the-top, deeply sardonic look at human hubris confronting the untamable forces of nature.
