He directed the biggest adventure saga of the 2000s then disappeared after a failure at the box office: he returns with a science fiction adventure

A director’s career is never assured. It doesn’t matter if you’ve directed a hit film or are behind a hit franchise, one misstep can spell doom. This is what happened to Gore Verbinski, who went behind the camera for the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy and who, after a notorious failure, disappeared from Hollywood. He is now back with a science fiction project which promises to be rather intriguing…

Gore Verbinskihe’s the dad of Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann and dear Jack Sparrow, he who brought the most legendary adventure saga of the 2000s to the big screen: Pirates of the Caribbean. The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) was a box office success, grossing over $654 million worldwide. The film starring Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley was initially entitled to two sequels: The Secret of the Cursed Chest (2006), which grossed more than a billion dollars worldwide, and Until the End of the Dead. World (2007), which grossed over $960 million at the worldwide box office.

In 2011, the franchise made its comeback with The Fountain of Youth which would be followed by Salazar’s Vengeance in 2017, the fifth and final adventure of Jack Sparrow, both signed by different directors.

As the franchise continued without him, Gore Verbinski made films for his part which unfortunately did not really work. Rango (2011) grossed more than $245 million against a budget of $135 million. Lone Ranger: Birth of a Hero (2013) arrived later: with Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer as the leads, the film cost $215 million and grossed just over $260 million worldwide. The profit was not huge.

The final straw was A Cure for Life (2017) with Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs and Mia Goth. Besides good reviews, the film didn’t do well at the box office: it cost $40 million and only grossed a little over $26 million.

A new project to save the whole world

Seven years have passed since then and Gore Verbinski is ready to perform again. This time, the filmmaker will return to action for a science fiction project with Sam Rockwell in the lead role.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die will follow a man from the future who arrives in a Los Angeles restaurant with the mission of recruiting a specific group of disgruntled customers to save the world from the threat of an Artificial Intelligence that has taken over. rebelled. This is intriguing!

Besides Sam RockwellHaley Lu Richardson (Two Meters Away, The White Lotus), Zazie Beetz (Joker, Deadpool 2), Michael Peña (Collision, Ant-Man) and Juno Temple (Ted Lasso, Fargo) complete the main cast of the film. Production began last May, so we can imagine a release in 2025. To be continued.

In the meantime, the Pirates of the Caribbean saga, including the original trilogy by Gore Verbinski, can be found streaming on Disney+.