# Digger: Tom Cruise's Cynical Climate Film

> Tom Cruise's Digger reveals climate collapse through a musical's dark twist.
- Title: Digger: Tom Cruise's Cynical Climate Film · AV Club | Shortify
- Summary: Tom Cruise's Digger reveals climate collapse through a musical's dark twist. Digger is a climate satire where Tom Cruise plays both a fictional oil tycoon…
- Keywords: tom cruise, digger, alejandro gonzalez inarritu, fossil fools, climate collapse, warner bros, paramount, david ellison, larry ellison, trump, entertainment, culture
- Source: AV Club — https://avclub.com/spoiler-space-digger-tom-cruise-musical-or-something-much-worse-cynical-twist
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: tom cruise, digger, alejandro gonzalez inarritu, fossil fools, climate collapse, warner bros, paramount, david ellison, larry ellison, trump, entertainment, culture
## Digger's double narrative
Digger offers a twist: it's not a musical but art from the future.

> Digger isn't a musical, but there is a twist: Digger is art from the future
## Tom Cruise's dual role
Tom Cruise plays Digger Rockwell, an oil tycoon, and Curtis Marks, whose daughter dies during the show.

> Digger Rockwell (Tom Cruise) comforts President Compson (John Goodman)
## Fossil Fools' climate satire
Fossil Fools is a stage show about oilman Digger ignoring climate scientists.

> Fossil Fools is a stage show recounting the time the 'real-life' oilman Digger ignored climate scientists
## Curtis's backstage drama
Curtis Marks complains about the movie he paid $15 for as personal drama.

> Why is this funny? Curtis yells to the rafters
## Kenny's revelation
Kenny, Rockwell's nephew, is the financier and appears as Emma's son in Fossil Fools.

> You really get him. It's a lot of fun to watch
## Audience reaction
The audience cries during Fossil Fools' opening night, but leaves the flooded city.

> The gap between their experience and that of Digger's moviegoing audience is the size of a floating ice shelf
## The real-world twist
Warner Bros. will soon be owned by Paramount, financed by Larry Ellison, Trump's ally.

> Paramount CEO David Ellison's father, Larry, a Trump buddy
## Key takeaway

Digger is a climate satire where Tom Cruise plays both a fictional oil tycoon and a man whose daughter dies during a climate disaster, showing how the powerful control narratives even after the world ends.