Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die hits theaters on April 15, 2026. For his return to feature filmmaking, Gore Verbinski brings together Sam Rockwell, Juno Temple, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña and Zazie Beetz for a film that blends science fiction, comedy and adventure, set against an apocalypse foretold by an artificial intelligence. Debuting at the 2026 Berlinale in the Special Gala section, the project rests on a simple premise: starting the end of the world from a Los Angeles diner.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
Film | 2026
Theatrical release: April 15, 2026
Adventure, comedy, science fiction | Running time: 2h14
Directed by Gore Verbinski | Starring Sam Rockwell, Juno Temple, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz
Original title: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
It all kicks off when a man bursts into a Los Angeles restaurant, detonator in hand, claiming to be from the future. He says this is his 117th attempt to avert an AI‑driven apocalypse, and this time he must recruit a team on the spot capable of changing the outcome. The film thus foregrounds a distinctly contemporary threat, but through an improvised crew rather than the usual disaster‑movie archetypes.
This starting point sits fairly clearly within Gore Verbinski’s filmography, a director drawn to stories of imbalance, offbeat characters and worlds that drift from the everyday into the strange. The director of The Ring, of the original Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy and Rango adapts here an original screenplay by Matthew Robinson, reworked to place the question of artificial intelligence at the heart of a group narrative that’s more absurd than spectacular.
Sam Rockwell leads the cast of The Man of the Future, flanked by Haley Lu Richardson, Juno Temple, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, Asim Chaudhry and Tom Taylor. The ensemble fits the film’s logic: instead of a single obvious hero, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die leans on a band of ordinary people pulled into a mission that’s bigger than them.
The film's premiere at Berlinale 2026, in the Special Gala section, finally anchors its release in an already established festival landscape. Ahead of its French theatrical bow, the movie sets itself up as the return of a director long tied to Hollywood, presenting an original project at the crossroads of time travel, technological satire, and collective storytelling.
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