GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON’T DIE Trailer Drops First Look At Verbinski’s Intriguingly Authentic Sci-Fi Movie

Gore Verbinski seems to be able to shake issues up at a time when theaters are filled with reboots, remakes, and endless franchises.

The director, whose type formed all the pieces from the unnerving chills of The Ring to the moody, Gothic really feel of A Cure for Wellness, is lastly headed again to the large display screen with one thing genuinely unique.

Early reactions from the movie’s shock screening at Fantastic Fest in September have been surprisingly sturdy. People are calling it a recent, formidable standout, and plenty of assume it may make an actual splash though it’s arriving in early 2026, a launch window that large motion pictures usually skip.

In a earlier press launch, Briarcliff Entertainment CEO Tom Ortenberg shared, “This film is wildly original, endlessly entertaining, and unlike anything audiences have seen before. After seeing it, we immediately knew Briarcliff was the perfect partner to distribute Gore Verbinski’s first independent, bonkers movie. We couldn’t be more excited to share his vision with audiences across the country.”

On how the movie pertains to the present world’s introduction and rising reliance on AI, Verbinski stated, “Well, I think in the case of a movie that’s about AI, that’s the sort of, I mean, that’s the beginning, right?”

“I mean, the fact that we don’t communicate with each other, I think is essential to sort of what, you know, it fascinates me that AI sort of, right out of the gate, is taking songwriting and illustration, and all of these kind of, like, what is it going to do next?”

“Does it want to breathe for us? Like, there are certain things we, like, go just, you know, cure cancer, go to Mars. Like, what are you doing attacking the shit that we need to do?”

“A man claiming to be from the future takes the patrons of an iconic Los Angeles diner hostage in search of unlikely recruits in a quest to save the world.”

Gore Verbinski directs from a script penned by Matthew Robinson.

The movie stars  Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, Asim Chandhry, Tom Taylor, and Juno Temple.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die hits North American theaters on February 13. The movie premiered at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, again in September.