Shoes, tsunamis and "great deniability" in Tom Cruise's Digger

The final trailer for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's satire is drawing a late crowd after the film's release, with John Goodman's president handing the cleanup to the man who caused the mess.

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Why this story? The video is running at 22,337 views a day, 15 times its usual pace (1,459).

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"With great power comes great deniability," reads one of the title cards in Legendary's final trailer for Digger, and Tom Cruise's Digger Rockwell seems to take it as a job description. He opens the trailer on a private plane, inviting viewers to picture themselves as one of those people who believe "Digger Rockwell is Satan himself." Soon after, an explosion at his rig has set off tsunamis, and the death toll in the briefing room runs to the hundreds of thousands.

Posted in September, the trailer is having its busiest stretch now, nearly two weeks after the film reached theaters on October 2. It is drawing around fifteen times its usual daily views. Are these people who have seen the film coming back for another look, or the curious who have not gone yet? The comment section has both.

Iñárritu, billed on screen as the director of Birdman and The Revenant, plays the catastrophe for satire. An assembly pelts Digger with shoes. John Goodman's president settles on a plan: "Now, Digger here got us into this mess, and Digger's gonna dig us out." Officials in a bunker stare at something enormous under the water, Sandra Hüller's character advises "Double down," and Digger tells an angry crowd what happens if he stops drilling: "You starve, you freeze to death!" Riz Ahmed plays his aide, with Michael Stuhlbarg and Jesse Plemons also in the cast.

Much of the talk is about Cruise's look. Several viewers call it his biggest transformation since Les Grossman, the foul-mouthed studio boss he played in Tropic Thunder, while others see a resemblance to Bob Odenkirk. One viewer who saw the film with their family writes that the trailers do not capture it, comparing its stylized sets and dry humor to Wes Anderson.

And a sizable group in the comments is asking Legendary for something else entirely: a trailer for its next Godzilla x Kong film.

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The numbers

A trailer that had gone quiet after its September debut is suddenly pulling in views at many times its usual pace.

views per day, this video

typical day

1,459

now

22,337

subscribers

610,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

290,930,140

views per day

211,553

typical day: 166,557

the video

views

58,591

likes

507

comments

66

days online

34

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Legendary

610,000

GODZILLA OFFICIAL by TOHO

586,000

Sony Pictures Releasing UK

574,000

Warner Bros. Rewind

495,000

Fandango

485,000

IGN Movie Trailers

402,000

As of October 14, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

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