"Why is it going after the things that are essentially what we need to do as humans: to tell stories, to write a song, to write a poem? Don't do that; go cure cancer, do something else. You don't need to breathe for me. Why is it coming after the things that we like to do?"
"When the right music plays, I like to dance. Matthew's script, particularly that opening monologue, really spoke to me. I read it in 2020, and then we spent about two years working on it."
"AI has changed since then, and now it's not something out there on the horizon. It's here. It's in our lives. It did feel like it was immediate, that the story needed to be made quickly and put out right now."
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die follows a time traveler sent from the future to destroy an all-powerful artificial intelligence before it becomes sentient. Director Gore Verbinski frames the film around worries that AI is encroaching on essential human creative acts such as storytelling, songwriting, and poetry, and questions why AI targets those pursuits instead of solving other pressing problems. Verbinski discovered Matthew Robinson's script in 2020 and developed the project over two years. Rapid advances in generative AI during production shifted the premise from speculative to immediate, creating urgency to complete and release the film as a cultural response to the technology's real-world presence.
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