February 2026

AI at Berlinale: Gore Verbinski and Nicolò Gallio Weigh In On Evolving Landscape

“There's so much to talk about,” admitted director Gore Verbinski as a journalist asked him his thoughts on AI during a Berlinale press conference for his competition film Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. In the film, a man from the future recruits a group of Los Angelenos to help save the world from a rogue artificial intelligence. “I mean, it's coming," he began. "I'm in meetings all the time with heads of visual-effects studios, actors — everybody’s talking about AI. And then [there's] outside of my world, in geopolitics... I could go on and on, but I do think, fundamentally, I don't want this thing to get in front of the creative process. I think that the more it's directing you specifically toward something, thinking it's helping you,...more