Cruise, 64, is starring in Digger, a satirical black comedy directed by Alejandro G Inarritu, who directed Birdman and The Revenant.
A brief synopsis for the film has teased: "The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's saviour before the disaster he's unleashed destroys everything."
The trailer kicks off with a voiceover of Cruise's character Digger Rockwell saying: "Everything changes. One day you're a cat, or a king. Next day, you're just ashes in a box."
The first clip shows an unrecognisable Cruise – with a Southern accent, pot belly and thinning white hair – walking through a walk-in wardrobe shirtless before being told that the buck stops with him after his business dealings have caused a glacier to shift significantly.
"That glacier over there in Greenland shifts five feet. Now, this desk in front of me is bigger than five feet. My dick is a tenth of that size. What? Do you want me to shut down a billion-dollar platform over something 10 times the size of my dick?" he declares while misunderstanding how serious the problem is.
Instead, Digger seems to be more concerned about his cat, who he is told is ill and could have anywhere between "two weeks and five minutes" to live.
Pushing back against a warning from one of his employees, he lashes out and tells him: "I know perfectly well what's going on because I'm paying for the whole thing … I'm paying for your f***ing 90 per cent Hungarian goose down winter jacket. I'm paying your salary. If you want to shut it down, say it!"
However, he quickly comes under pressure to act on the impending global ecological disaster, which isn't detailed but involves a tsunami that has damaged nuclear plants.
Playing the US president is John Goodman who declares that Digger "got us into this mess … and will get us out of it".
He becomes even more incensed after being told it could cost up to 18 trillion dollars to fix the situation, with the solution appearing to be dropping a missile on the glacier.
Things go from bad to worse when Digger is also told there are ongoing concerns about the nuclear race too.
He is also reprimanded by a political adviser, who yells at him: "You knew before the rest of us. That is why it is your problem."
Digger is heard saying: "If you can't control the course of nature…you control the narrative."
He then says that while people have been told the facts, they "don't know the story… which is yet to be told".
Digger also stars Riz Ahmed, Jesse Plemons, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sandra Huller, Sophie Wilde, Emma D'Arcy, Burn Gorman and Robert John Burke.
Inarritu has previously won two Oscars for best director for Birdman and The Revenant.
This will be Cruise's first film since the 2025 release of Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning.
Digger will be released in cinemas on October 2.
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