Sci-fi movie ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’ warns of AI, with a comic book twist

Feb 13 (Reuters) – Gore Verbinski hopes his movie “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” will likely be therapeutic, whereas additionally cautioning in opposition to the deteriorating impact of expertise and synthetic ​intelligence on society, the Oscar-winning director stated at ‌the Berlin Film Festival on Friday.

The movie, screened as a part of the competition’s non-competition Special part, stars Sam Rockwell as a raggedy, unnamed time traveller from the longer term who bursts right into a diner one evening ‌with ​a dressing up of tubes and wires and ⁠one objective: selecting who ⁠among the many confused patrons will be a part of him on a mission to cease a future AI apocalypse.

The result’s an action-packed sci-fi comedy-drama, which goals to entertain whereas additionally making ​folks mirror on the dangers of an over-digitalized society.

“Comedy is really, in many ways, the harshest critic,” Verbinski stated. “And ⁠I think if you are getting ⁠the laugh, there’s a little medicine in the ​cake, right?”

While some persons are choosing up on the social ​commentary within the movie in a dramatic means, others “are ‌just eating cake,” he added.

Verbinski, well-known for guiding movies together with Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl and 2002’s horror The Ring, stated he additionally sees humour as a ⁠means of illustrating how society has “normalized some of this insanity.”

The movie alternates motion and comedy with a few of the characters’ extra dramatic ⁠back-stories, which dab ‌at different present themes in a fashion ⁠harking back to dystopian sci-fi sequence “Black Mirror”.

“As far ​as the ‌political aspects to the film, obviously one ​school shooting ⁠is too many,” 57-year-old Rockwell stated, nodding to the story of Juno Temple’s character Susan.

However, “the first priority of the film is to entertain,” stated Academy Award winner Rockwell. “And then if you come away with a message, that’s great.”

(Reporting by Linda Pasquini; Editing ​by Nia Williams)