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Rogue AI has become one of the dominant Hollywood villains, with the technology taking over the world’s nuclear arsenal in Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning and unleashing a 3D-printed army in Tron: Ares. Pirates of the Caribbean and Rango director Gore Verbinski and The Invention of Lying screenwriter Matthew Robinson are taking on the same tech anxiety, but doing so in a particularly bonkers way that includes time travel, zombie teens, and a giant horse. The new trailer for Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, which will be released on Feb. 13, 2026, opens with a time-traveling Sam Rockwell walking into a Los Angeles diner with an apocalyptic warning like Bruce Willis in 12 Monkeys or Michael Biehn in The Terminator. Clothed in mismatched footwear, dripping tubes, a raincoat, and a child’s backpack, the bearded man insists he comes from a “nightmare apocalypse” and needs to recruit people to help him fix the timeline. Armed with gardening tools and sporting equipment, his ragtag bunch of volunteers prepares for a very wild night. The threat seems to come from a new AI that has utterly mesmerized teens, who pursue their teachers (Michael Peña of Ant-Man and Zazie Beetz of Invincible) like zombies carrying smartphones. The trailer is full of bizarre imagery, including a pastel kids' birthday party, a series of creepy animated toys that look like they were assembled by Toy Story villain Sid Phillips, and a horse big enough to crunch a car under its hoof. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die got its first public screening in September at Fantastic Fest, Austin’s annual film festival dedicated to genre movies. The film received generally positive reviews that praised Rockwell’s performance and Verbinski and Robinson’s bleak view not just of the future, but of a present where Americans have already resigned themselves to a violent world dominated by Silicon Valley greed. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die arrives in theaters on Feb. 13, 2026.
