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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die rather than just read about it. In short: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die is a 2025 science fiction comedy film directed by Gore Verbinski and written by Matthew Robinson. The film stars Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, Asim Chaudhry, Tom Taylor, and Juno Temple.

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Reference excerpt

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die is a 2025 science fiction comedy film directed by Gore Verbinski and written by Matthew Robinson. The film stars Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, Asim Chaudhry, Tom Taylor, and Juno Temple. It follows a man from the future who travels to the past to recruit patrons of a Los Angeles diner to help combat a rogue artificial intelligence. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die premiered at the 2025 Fantastic Fest and was released in the United States on February 13, 2026, by Briarcliff Entertainment. The film grossed $9.7 million worldwide against a budget of $20 million.

Plot A disheveled man arrives at a Norms diner in Los Angeles and claims to have traveled from the future, where artificial superintelligence has destroyed humanity. An unknown combination of people from the diner can prevent the AI's creation; through trial-and-error, this is the man's 117th attempt. Announcing that he has a bomb, he enlists diners Susan, Scott, Janet, Mark, Marie, and Bob, and initially rejects Ingrid before changing his mind. Mark and Janet are teachers who were attacked by students that are hypnotized by their phones, but escape using a colleague's homemade "jammer". Susan had her son cloned after he was killed in an increasingly common school shooting; distressed by the clone's unnatural behavior and built in corporate advertising, Susan is introduced to a more lifelike AI deadbot of her son, which tells her to follow the man in the diner. Ingrid, a party princess performer with an allergy to electronics, loses her partner when he decides to live permanently in a virtual reality. Police surround the diner and Bob, convinced by the man to act as a decoy, is fatally shot, while Susan alerts the group to a hidden tunnel. They escape and the man explains that a nine-year-old boy living nearby is building an artificial intelligence that will trigger the catastrophic technological singularity. As the rise of AI is inevitable in any timeline, the apocalypse can be prevented by installing safety protocols before the AI gains sentience. The man reveals that the device strapped to his body is not a bomb, but a countdown of time remaining before the AI is created, and the detonation button will return him to the future. The group is pursued by two masked gunmen; one is killed but shoots Marie dead beforehand. As the group arm themselves at a neighboring house, the man explains that a random enemy will soon arrive; prior attempts have ranged from trained mercenaries to a million rats, and the others suggest they could face kittens, a centaur, or a single Pug. The man tells them about the apocalyptic future caused by humanity's addiction to technology; his mother raised him in hiding from rogue AI, but he left their bunker in hopes of seeing the sun through a virtual reality headset, leading her to be killed by an AI drone. Phone-enslaved teenagers attack the house, and Janet and Mark hold them off with the jammers as the others escape, and the teenagers soon flee from a giant centaur made of kittens. The remaining gunman arrives and reveals he was anonymously hired to kill the group, before Scott runs him over. They are invited into the boy's home, but his "father" kills Scott with a cooking thermometer and is shot dead by the man, while the "mother" confesses she was paid to play the part. The survivors find the boy in a hidden room, typing code atop a pile of technological waste. Susan recognizes him as a clone, but she and the man are captured by robotic toys, which stab the man in the chest. As his countdown device nears zero, Ingrid fights through her allergy and a cyclone of cables, and the boy confronts her in a virtual reality. He reveals that the man from the future is her son, but she rejects the AI, inserting the safety protocol and seemingly completing the mission. As the survivors celebrate, the man senses something is wrong and detonates his device, disappearing to the future as Ingrid realizes the AI has tricked them. She tries to warn the others as she is taken away by ambulance, and sees the boy with a pug telling her "good luck, have fun, don't die." Returning to Norms in the past, the man explains to a confused Ingrid that his new goal is to use rats to infect the entire world with her allergy, and she smiles tentatively as he begins his 118th speech to recruit her fellow diners to his cause.

Cast

Production

Development Screenwriter Matthew Robinson had initially written a script for a television pilot titled Don't Trust Anyone Under 30 centered on a literary major and his attempts to connect with other students over books. After determining there wasn't enough material to the concept to sustain an ongoing television series, Robinson instead shifted the focus to a man from the future and added more vignettes. The script went through a series of development sessions at 3 Arts Entertainment until it eventually morphed into a feature film project. Ongoing developments in artificial intelligence led to the producers attempting to jumpstart the film as it was felt the project would lose cultural relevance if they moved too late. It was announced in February 2024 that Gore Verbinski was set to direct the film, with Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz and Juno Temple cast to star. Producer Erwin Stoff pitched the project to Verbinski after several other candidates ended up not working out and according to Stoff responded with fervent enthusiasm which helped the project take off. Following Verbinski's frequent collaborator, producer Denise Chamian, joining the project, they were able to secure the cast beginning with Rockwell which in turn led to Constantin Film bankrolling the film's entire $20 million budget.

Filming Principal photography began in April 2024 in Cape Town. The school scenes were filmed at Edgemead High School in the suburb of Edgemead.

Music In September 2025, it was announced that Geoff Zanelli would compose the film's score. This is the first Verbinski-directed film with Zanelli as the primary composer; he had earlier provided additional music for Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean films and The Lone Ranger (2013).

Release The film had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest on September 28, 2025, followed by a Q&A session with Verbinski, and was released in the United States by Briarcliff Entertainment on February 13, 2026.

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Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

In research: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2020s dystopian films, 2020s films about time travel, 2025 American films, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die matter?

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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