Sam Rockwell Battles a Sci-Fi Apocalypse in Gore Verbinski’s ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’ Trailer

AI has become inescapable these days, with every app, search engine, and internet browser overloading us with pop-ups explaining why their new AI enhancement/assistant/plagiarism machine is something we simply can’t live without. In reality, AI is being forced on us all because a bunch of crazy billionaires have invested crazy amounts of money in it and desperately need to convince us that they weren’t betting on a lemon. Our favorite movies are already being massacred by AI, human beings are losing their jobs to AI, and an entirely AI-generated nightmare moonlighting as an “actress” is reportedly about to be legitimately represented by an agency.

Force-feeding AI is at best an abhorrent intrusion, and at worst AI-induced psychosis. It would also be much more manageable if it didn’t already exist such examples of fictional storytelling exploring the countless ways AI will bring about the end of humanity. I mean, the “Terminator” franchise has gone over 40 years with six movies, a live-action TV series, and a fantasy anime, all with the message “DON’T TRUST THE ROBOTS!” for crying out loud.

If only someone from the future, perhaps someone with the charisma of an actor like, say, Sam Rockwell, could return to warn us of the hell that awaits us if we become dependent on AI. Well, the likelihood of that happening is slim to none, but at least we have the return of Gore Verbinski with his sci-fi apocalypse film “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” to hold us over. We may be a few months away from the end of the year, but 2026 is already looking terribly promising if that’s what happens on February 13, 2026.

Sam Rockwell plays Man From the Future, a man claiming to be from the future who shows up at Norm’s Restaurant in Los Angeles to recruit a ragtag group of unlikely heroes to help him save the world from becoming its future – a self-described “nightmare apocalypse” – where everyone is despondent and completely glued to their VR headset. Who joins him? Who is ready to save the future? According to this new trailer, a stellar ensemble including Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, Asim Chaudhry, Tom Taylor and Juno Temple join Rockwell on his mind-blowing sci-fi journey. The revolution actually begins tonight!

“Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” had its world premiere at a secret screening at Fantastic Fest 2025, where /Film’s Rafael Motamayor was blessed by the movie gods with the opportunity to check it out and gave it an 8 out of 10. Verbinski hasn’t directed a film since 2016’s “A Cure for Wellness,” a chilling psychological thriller that marked his comeback to horror after successes like the first. three “Pirates of the Caribbean” films. But “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” seems like a goofy good time and exactly the kind of movie we need right now. Maybe this time the anti-AI message will stick.

“Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” will be released in theaters on February 13, 2026.