It was recently revealed that Tom Cruise would be collaborating for the first time with acclaimed filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu for an English-language feature. Warner Bros has announced that the as-yet-untitled film will hit theatres in 2026, first in American theatres on October 2, 2026.
Inarritu, whose last film Bardo was in his native language, is returning to direct an English-language film after 2015's Oscar-winning The Revenant, starring Leonard DiCaprio and Tom Hardy.
As per the official synopsis, the film centers on "the world's most powerful man in the world who embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's saviour before the disaster he's unleashed destroys everything."
Interestingly, the film will have Inarritu reuniting with Alexander Dinelaris and Nicolas Giacobone, his co-writers who worked on Birdman, with an additional writing credit for Sabina Berman.
The film also features Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone of Interest), John Goodman (The Big Lebowski, 10 Cloverfield Lane), Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man), Jesse Plemons (Killers of the Flower Moon, Civil War), Sophie Wilde (Talk to Me) and Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal, Nightcrawler).
The release date update accompanies updates of other upcoming big Warner Bros properties, such as Matt Reeves' Robert Pattinson-starrer The Batman 2, slated to open on October 1, 2027. It was earlier scheduled for October 2, 2026.
The studio also shuffled the release dates of Bong Joon Ho's Mickey 17 and Ryan Coogler's period vampire thriller Sinners, which has Michael B Jordan in dual roles.
Mickey 17, also starring Pattinson, has been shifted from April 18, 2025, to March 7, 2025. Sinners will be released on April 18.
