Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die lands in French 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 in a film that blends science fiction, comedy and adventure, against the backdrop of an AI-foretold apocalypse. Nominated for the Berlinale Special Gala 2026, the movie opens the end of the world from a seedy Los Angeles diner.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
Film | 2026
In theaters: April 15, 2026
Adventure, comedy, science fiction | Running time: 2h15
Directed by Gore Verbinski | Screenplay: Matthew Robinson
Starring Sam Rockwell, Juno Temple, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz
Original title: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
One evening, in a dilapidated Los Angeles restaurant, a scruffy man bursts in with a detonator in hand and claims to be from the future. He explains that this would be his 117th attempt to avert an AI-triggered apocalypse, and that his plan this time is to recruit the customers present to form a team capable of changing the course of events. The film thus stakes out a distinctly contemporary threat, built from a group as improbable as they are underprepared, in stark contrast to the usual tropes of the disaster movie.
This starting point sits within Gore Verbinski's filmography, a filmmaker drawn to stories of imbalance and worlds that slip from the everyday into the strange. The director of The Ring, of the initial Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy and of Rango adapts here an original screenplay by Matthew Robinson, revised to place the question of artificial intelligence at the heart of a collective narrative that is more absurd than spectacular.
Sam Rockwell stars as the Man from the Future, flanked by Haley Lu Richardson, Juno Temple, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, Asim Chaudhry and Tom Taylor. Rather than a single clear-cut hero, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die puts a band of ordinary people at the heart of a mission that’s bigger than they ever imagined.
Unveiled in February 2026 in the Berlinale Special Gala section during the festival’s 76th edition, the film marks Gore Verbinski’s sole nomination in this lineup. This pre-release showcase cements the project’s status as a crowd-pleasing auteur project, blending time travel, tech satire, and a character-driven ensemble narrative.
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