#gore-verbinski

#gore-verbinski

The story kicks off in a diner when a man claiming to be from the future barges in with a detonator and a warning about an impending AI-fueled doom spiral - and from there, it only gets weirder. Richardson says she tore through the script in one sitting. "My agent said, 'Haley, there's a good script. We want you to do it,' which is rare," she explains. "And then I read it all in one sitting... which is also rare."

The future of mankind depends on late-night diners in Norms' restaurant on La Cienega Boulevard in a new film coming out on Friday, Feb. 13. The darkly comic sci-fi adventure is called "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die," and it stars Sam Rockwell. It's directed by Gore Verbinski, whose hits include "The Ring" and the first three "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies. It was written by Matthew Robinson, whose credits include writing and co-directing 2009's "The Invention of Lying" with star Ricky Gervais.

Sam Rockwell stars as the otherwise unnamed "Man from the Future," who shows up at a Los Angeles diner looking like a homeless person but claiming to be a time traveler from an apocalyptic future. He's there to recruit the locals into his war against a rogue AI, although the diner patrons are understandably dubious about his sanity. ("I come from a nightmare apocalypse," he assures the crowd about his grubby appearance. "This is the height of f*@ing fashion!") Somehow, he convinces a handful of Angelenos to join his crusade, and judging by the remaining footage, all kinds of chaos breaks out.

Gore Verbinski's bombastic return to the big screen starts with a bang - well, more accurately, a trickle. It's not easy to forget that this is the same man who delivered three gonzo Pirates of the Caribbean movies when his mysterious protagonist (Sam Rockwell) storms into a diner in the heart of Los Angeles, swathed in a plastic raincoat and covered in a series of tubes and wires... one of which empties a splash of urine onto the linoleum.