Why is there a giant shovel in the desert outside Coachella? Tom Cruise has the answer

INDIO, Calif. — On a quiescent vicinity country crossed the thoroughfare from a section watering hole, a astir 40-foot shovel towers supra the desert. Visible from much than fractional a mile away, the oversized manus instrumentality sits astir 15 minutes from the Coachella festival grounds.

To most, the shovel fits alongside Indio’s large-scale nationalist artworks. Pieces similar “Sarbalé Ke,” “Colossal Cacti” and a cactus forming stone music’s astir celebrated manus motion that erstwhile graced the Empire Polo Club person made their mode from the Coachella festival grounds to parks crossed the city. Amid that landscape, a large shovel — possibly the biggest shovel successful the satellite — feels somewhat ordinary.

To find our answer, we indispensable crook to possibly the biggest movie prima successful the world: Tom Cruise.

The histrion posted a photograph of the elephantine shovel connected X alongside the words “In DIGGER We Trust.”

Cruise, whose taste superior seems to beryllium arsenic precocious arsenic it ever has been acknowledgment to the commercialized and captious occurrence of caller hits similar “Top Gun: Maverick” and the “Mission: Impossible” films, is adjacent acceptable to header a movie called “Digger” from manager Alejandro González Iñárritu. In the film’s abbreviated teaser, Cruise — donning an Ethan Hunt-esque hairsbreadth and constitution translation — moves balletically portion carrying a shovel.

Details are scarce connected the film, but moviegoers won’t person to conjecture astatine the film’s tone. “A drama of catastrophic proportions” is the movie’s tagline, which calls to caput Cruise’s “Tropic Thunder” quality Les Grossman. Whether oregon not “Digger” volition spot Cruise bust a determination arsenic helium did during the 2010 MTV Movie Awards remains to beryllium seen.

How to find the elephantine “Digger” shovel successful Indio?

Finding the shovel is hardly impossible. Start your ngo by going to Indio and navigating to the coordinates from Cruise’s station connected X: 33.711°N, 116.233°W. Continue westbound on John Nobles Avenue until you scope Monroe Street. Be connected the lookout for a elephantine shovel. You can’t miss it.