"We developed an animated musical. We recorded the entire soundtrack for an animated musical. We've developed multiple screenplays. I just find that sometimes the stories I'm most passionate about perhaps don't satisfy the green-light committees' process, and that's fair. But I got to do what I do, and they do what they do."
"This script was sent to me in 2020. It was dated 2017, so it had been kicking around for a while. I went and met with Matthew, the writer. We did a bunch of work, particularly on the second half, working on Sam's character's backstory and making it just a little more relative to how AI I think is affecting our lives currently."
Gore Verbinski spent years developing projects including an animated musical, recording its soundtrack, and writing multiple screenplays despite industry green-light challenges. Verbinski returned to feature filmmaking with Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, a genre-blending film starring Sam Rockwell as a time traveler recruiting diner patrons to stop an all-powerful AI. The film explores the personal histories of the recruited team, including teachers, a grieving mother, and a technology-allergic girl. The filmmaking process involved rewriting the script’s second half and deepening the protagonist’s backstory to connect the story to contemporary AI concerns. The film releases February 13.
Read at Filmmaker Magazine
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]