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Presenting GQ’s October cover star: Tom Cruise.

It’s been 20 years since Cruise last appeared on the cover of GQ, and, in some ways, he’s living like it’s 2006 again. In Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger, Cruise is taking his riskiest creative swing since the aughts. And now he’s sitting down for his first cover shoot and longform interview with GQ in two decades.

Why now? He’s been busy, for one. The world knows him as the last real movie star, a cliff-jumping, building-scaling action-franchise hero who makes hits like Mission Impossible, Edge of Tomorrow, and Top Gun: Maverick.

But there has always been another Cruise, the mayor of Hollywood and the guardian of true cinema—with a body of work that spans Kubrick, Spielberg, PTA, Scorsese, and Coppola. is so weird and original in its auteurist ambition that Cruise calls his work in it “the culmination of all my skills.”

“When I look at Digger, and finally after 25 years to be able to work with Iñárritu,” Cruise says, “everything’s led to this.”

GQ’s sat down with for two rare conversations—first alongside Iñárritu, then one-on-one on camera. You can see it all at the link in bio, or in 20 GQ editions around the world — our biggest global cover ever.

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🎬 Digger — Tom Cruise

Digger is Tom Cruise’s upcoming comedy-drama directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Cruise plays Digger Rockwell, an enormously powerful oil tycoon whose actions contribute to a catastrophic global disaster. As the consequences spiral out of control, Digger launches a frantic mission to convince the world that he can save humanity—even though he may be responsible for the crisis in the first place.

The film also stars Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Hüller, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Jesse Plemons. It is scheduled to arrive in North American theaters and IMAX on October 2, 2026, with international releases beginning September 30.

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In DIGGER We Trust. 33.711°N, 116.233°W

TOM CRUISE IS BACK.
And this time he’s not running… he’s DIGGING. ⛏️

"DIGGER"
Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Only in Theaters 10.02.26 | IMAX

Digg. Or Die.
Who’s watching this with me? 👀