{"id":131695,"date":"2025-11-12T20:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/131695\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T20:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:00:14","slug":"good-luck-have-fun-dont-die-trailer-ushers-in-ai-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/131695\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Luck, Have Fun, Don\u2019t Die trailer ushers in AI apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director Gore Verbinski has racked up an impressive filmography over the years, from The Ring and the first three installments of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise to the 2011 Oscar-nominated animated Western Rango. Granted, he\u2019s had his share of failures (*cough* The Lone Ranger *cough*), but if this trailer is any indication, Verbinski has another winner on his hands with the absurdist sci-fi dark comedy <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Good_Luck,_Have_Fun,_Don%27t_Die\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Good Luck, Have Fun, Don\u2019t Die<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Rockwell stars as the otherwise unnamed \u201cMan from the Future,\u201d who shows up at a Los Angeles diner looking like a homeless person but claiming to be a time traveler from an apocalyptic future. He\u2019s there to recruit the locals into his war against a rogue AI, although the diner patrons are understandably dubious about his sanity. (\u201cI come from a nightmare apocalypse,\u201d he assures the crowd about his grubby appearance. \u201cThis is the height of f*@ing fashion!\u201d) Somehow, he convinces a handful of Angelenos to join his crusade, and judging by the remaining footage, all kinds of chaos breaks out.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the eminently watchable Rockwell, the cast includes 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 also appear in as-yet-undisclosed roles. Matthew Robinson (The Invention of Lying, Love and Monsters) penned the script. This is Verbinski\u2019s first indie film, and Tom Ortenberg, CEO of distributor Briarcliff Entertainment, praised it as \u201cwildly original, endlessly entertaining, and unlike anything audiences have seen before.\u201d Color us intrigued.<\/p>\n<p>Good Luck, Don\u2019t Die, Have Fun hits theaters on February 13, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Director Gore Verbinski has racked up an impressive filmography over the years, from The Ring and the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-131695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}