The New ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’ Trailer Teases a Wacky Tech Apocalypse
Sam Rockwell plays a laid back timetraveler who enlists a bunch of randos to save the world from our codependency of computers.
Earlier today, we were graced with a new trailer for Gore Verbinski’s upcoming film, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, that really wants us to batten down the hatches and prepare for the techno apocalypse.
The trailer starts with a child waltzing out of a doorway in the middle of winter, picking up a VR headset, whilst Sam Rockwell delivers a cryptic prophecy about “shit about to go down” that he can’t prepare us for. We then cut to a series of flashing images of people, slack-jawed, staring at their phones like Zoomers in a movie theater, prompted by a school student clicking a triangle on her phone, which tells us all we need to know: this is a flick where technology wants to kill us.
Before things get too crazy, we see a haggard-looking Sam Rockwell, clearly just having time-traveled, with the circuit board plastic suit and tubes donned on his person, heeding a warning to folks in a diner about the apocalypse that’s to come while tossing some phones into water pitchers. Evidently, some of the diner’s patrons—key among them Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, Asim Chaudhry, and Juno Temple—have a chance to save humanity. Though how they’ll actually achieve that or what happens should they fail, Rockwell doesn’t reveal for fear of killing morale. Fair enough!
What follows is a mile-a-minute supercut of action, blood, giant horse hooves crushing cars, and creepy mechanical dolls, making the odds that our heroes make it out alive, let alone unscathed, go down to zero. Yet, after what we can assume is a rallying speech from Rockwell to the diners about how the world is turning to shite because technology has upended our need to connect by making sure we stay plugged into whatever headgear or doom-scrolling device that brightens our screens.
While the burning of a VR headset is intense in any context, the group of unlikely heroes are clearly out of their depth as gunfire, falling cars, and zombie-like swarms of people hound them, keeping them on the back foot for most of the trailer. Still, Rockwell’s future-flung hero has faith that the gang can save the world. I guess that’s why the movie has that title.
As far as second trailers go, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die certainly promises a madcap, entertaining time. That should come as no surprise, given that the movie was written by Matthew Robinson, of The Invention of Lying fame. However, the film will also serve as Verbinski’s first movie since 2016’s A Cure For Wellness, so there’s a bit riding on whether the Rango and Pirates of the Caribbean director still has the juice or if we’ve got another The Lone Ranger on our hands.
We’ll have to wait and see how humanity’s unlikely saviors fare when Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die hits theaters on February 13.
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