“Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” is set to be Gore Verbinski’s first film in over nine years. He’s assembled an excellent cast for his comeback vehicle: Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, and Juno Temple.
We have our first look (via Fandango) at Sam Rockwell in “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.” Briarcliff Entertainment recently acquired U.S. distribution, and has set up a theatrical wide release on January 30, 2026 (via Deadline).
The film centers on a “man from the future” (Rockwell) who arrives at a diner in Los Angeles where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons (Richardson, Peña, Beetz, Temple) to join him on a one-night-six-block quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.
Before his nine-year hiatus, Verbinski had a mostly successful career, with films like “The Ring,” “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Rango,” and “The Weather Man.” But then came the slump: 2013’s “The Lone Ranger”—one of the biggest box-office disasters of all time—followed by 2016’s “A Cure for Wellness.” He hasn’t directed a film since.
