If you're sick of all the reboots, remakes and IP-driven movies hitting cinemas these days, visionary director Gore Verbinski, known for implementing his distinctive visual style across genres including the terrifying suspense of The Ring and the unsettling Gothic horror of A Cure for Wellness, is returning to the big screen with a compellingly original offering.
The anticipation is building rapidly following the debut of the teaser trailer for his latest project: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die.
The film will be distributed in the U.S. by Briarcliff Entertainment.
The trailer hints at a wildly entertaining and spectacular science fiction adventure, characterized by both imaginative world-building and the dark, witty sensibility that defines Verbinski's best works.
Early impressions from the film's surprise Fantastic Fest premiere back in September position the film as a much-needed breath of fresh air and a major theatrical event that shouldn't be overlooked because it's dropping in the first quarter of 2026.
The film will be distributed in the U.S. by Briarcliff Entertainment.
In a previous press release, 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 film relates to the current world's introduction and growing 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 film 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 film premiered at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, back in September.