Director Gore Verbinski and solid members Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Pena and Zazie Beetz, screenwriter Asim Chaudhry pose throughout a photocall to advertise the film ‘Good Luck, Have Enjoyable, Don’t Die’ on the 76th Berlinale Worldwide Movie Competition in Berlin, Germany February 13, 2026.
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Gore Verbinski hopes his movie “Good
Luck, Have Enjoyable, Do not Die” will likely be therapeutic, whereas additionally
cautioning towards the deteriorating impact of know-how and
synthetic intelligence on society, the Oscar-winning director
mentioned on the Berlin Movie Competition on Friday.
The movie, screened as a part of the competition’s non-competition
Particular 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 purpose: selecting who amongst
the 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 replicate on the dangers
of an over-digitalized society.
“Comedy is de facto, in some ways, the harshest critic,”
Verbinski mentioned. “And I feel if you’re getting the chortle,
there’s somewhat medication in the cake, proper?”
Whereas some persons are choosing up on the social commentary in
the movie in a dramatic method, others “are simply consuming 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, mentioned he additionally sees humour as a method of illustrating how
society has “normalized a few of this madness.”
The movie alternates motion and comedy with a number of the
characters’ extra dramatic back-stories, which dab at different
present themes in a way paying homage to dystopian sci-fi
sequence “Black Mirror”.
“So far as the political points to the movie, clearly one
college taking pictures is just too many,” 57-year-old Rockwell mentioned, nodding
to the story of Juno Temple’s character Susan.
Nonetheless, “the primary precedence of the movie is to entertain,”
mentioned Academy Award winner Rockwell. “After which for those who come away
with a message, that is nice.”
Printed on February 14, 2026
