Tom Cruise’s new movie Digger has a 9-figure budget.
The upcoming Alejandro G. Iñárritu black comedy — about the most powerful man in the world who causes a disaster and embarks on a mission to prove that he can save humanity — is set to cost at least US$125 million (S$160 million).
Puck’s Matthew Belloni wrote: “A high-budget original Iñárritu comedy — Warners is saying it cost US$125 million, but I’m already suspicious — with Tom Cruise in prosthetics. Basically next year’s One Battle [After Another].”
The movie also stars Riz Ahmed, Emma D’Arcy, Jesse Plemons, John Goodman, and Sandra Hüller.
One Battle After Another, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti, is believed to have cost between US$130 and US$175 million.
Digger is Iñárritu’s first English-language film since 2015’s The Revenant, which he co-wrote and produced.
Speaking previously about Digger, which originally had the working title Judy, he told Deadline: “I’m so excited. It was an incredible experience with Tom, Sandra Huller, Jesse Plemmons, with Riz Ahmed, but it’s a character driven film mounted on the shoulders of Tom which I knew he was exactly the right person.
“This is a wild comedy of catastrophic proportions. It’s insane. He makes me laugh every day. The range that I discovered working with Tom is unprecedented for me as a director. I was so f****** impressed and happy.
“He gives himself. He has an incredible sense of passion. It’s a brutal comedy. It’s a wild comedy of human nature. It’s scary and funny. It’s beautiful.
“It was a very challenging film, you will see. It’s many borders of many things. Every film challenges me. I don’t like doing things that I’ve done already. This is something that we’ve never done and it’s exciting as well.”
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