Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die trailer ushers in AI apocalypse

Director Gore Verbinski has racked up a powerful filmography through the years, from The Ring and the primary three installments of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise to the 2011 Oscar-nominated animated Western Rango. Granted, he’s had his share of failures (*cough* The Lone Ranger *cough*), but when this trailer is any indication, Verbinski has one other winner on his fingers with the absurdist sci-fi darkish comedy Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.

Sam Rockwell stars because the in any other case unnamed “Man from the Future,” who reveals up at a Los Angeles diner trying like a homeless individual however claiming to be a time traveler from an apocalyptic future. He’s there to recruit the locals into his struggle in opposition to a rogue AI, though the diner patrons are understandably doubtful about his sanity. (“I come from a nightmare apocalypse,” he assures the gang about his grubby look. “This is the height of f*@ing fashion!”) Somehow, he convinces a handful of Angelenos to affix his campaign, and judging by the remaining footage, every kind of chaos breaks out.

In addition to the eminently watchable Rockwell, the solid consists of Haley Lu Richardson as Ingrid, Michael Pena as Mark, Zazie Beetz as Janet, and Juno Temple as Susan. Dino Fetscher, Anna Acton, Asim Chaudhury, Daniel Barnett, and Dominique Maher additionally seem in as-yet-undisclosed roles. Matthew Robinson (The Invention of Lying, Love and Monsters) penned the script. This is Verbinski’s first indie movie, and Tom Ortenberg, CEO of distributor Briarcliff Entertainment, praised it as “wildly original, endlessly entertaining, and unlike anything audiences have seen before.” Color us intrigued.

Good Luck, Don’t Die, Have Fun hits theaters on February 13, 2026.