Breaking Bad actor Jesse Plemons has described the script for Tom Cruise's upcoming film Digger as a modern take on Dr. Strangelove, praising its strangeness, humor, tragedy, and Cruise's dramatic performance. Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, the film follows last month's announcement with an October 2, 2026 release. Plemons shared these insights in a Variety interview.
In a recent Variety interview, Jesse Plemons—who appears alongside Tom Cruise in Digger—called the script “one of the strangest, funniest, most tragic scripts I’ve read. There’s a kind of modern-day Dr. Strangelove thing, and then it becomes something else entirely.”
The comments come nearly a month after Cruise revealed the film's title, teaser, poster, and October 2, 2026 release date, billed by Warner Bros. as “a comedy of catastrophic proportions.” This marks a reunion for Plemons and Cruise, who last collaborated on 2017's American Made. Plemons lauded Cruise's work: “Getting to see Tom just go for it — not in a death-defying action way but fully showing what an incredible actor he is — that was thrilling.”
Iñárritu, known for The Revenant and Birdman (co-written by Digger's writers), directs the ensemble, which includes John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Emma D’Arcy among others. Plemons offered no further plot details.
