5 Months Later, the Best Sci-Fi Movie You’ve Never Watched Is Taking Over Hulu



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Following the movie’s major success at the box office, where it earned a remarkable $684 million worldwide, the simply stunning adaptation of Andy Weir‘s novel Project Hail Mary has continued its run on streaming. For almost 20 days, the Phil Lord and Christopher Miller-directed masterpiece, which stars Ryan Gosling as a high school teacher turned Earth’s savior, has topped the Prime Video streaming charts as it further cements itself as the best sci-fi movie of the year.

Gosling’s sci-fi epic is also expected to be noticed during awards season, with many touting the film for a Best Picture nod, a Best Actor nomination, and plenty of recognition in the technical categories. Although it’s easy to find oneself gushing over the year’s best sci-fi movie, it isn’t the only film of its kind to find streaming success at the moment. Another is perhaps the most underrated sci-fi effort of 2026 so far, the hilarious, twisted dark comedy, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.

From the moment Sam Rockwell‘s man from the future appears in a diner and starts recruiting customers with the nonchalance of someone who has been here many times before, viewers were hooked on Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. The film earned plenty of praise following its premiere at the Fantastic Fest in 2025, where it scored positive reviews from critics, which eventually led to an 82%, “certified fresh” rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Five months after its theatrical release, Gore Verbinski‘s first film since the 2016 psychological horror A Cure for Wellness is a streaming hit in America. At the time of writing, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is one of the most-streamed movies on Hulu.



















Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Personality Quiz
Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like?
Paul Atreides · Captain Kirk · Princess Leia · Ellen Ripley · Max Rockatansky

Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. One of them shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of refusing to back down. Eight questions will tell you which one.

🏜️Paul Atreides

🖖Capt. Kirk

Princess Leia

🔦Ellen Ripley

🔥Max Rockatansky

01

How do you lead when the stakes couldn’t be higher?
The way you lead under pressure is the most honest thing about you.





02

What is your greatest strength in a crisis?
The quality that keeps you alive when everything else fails.





03

What is the thing you’d sacrifice everything else for?
Your deepest motivation is your truest compass.





04

How do you relate to the people around you?
Who you are to others under pressure is who you really are.





05

You’re facing a threat that no one else believes is real. What do you do?
How you respond when you’re the only one who sees it defines everything.





06

What has your heroism cost you personally?
Every hero pays. The question is what — and whether they’d pay it again.





07

How do you feel about the rules of the world you’re in?
Every hero has a relationship with the system. What’s yours?





08

When everything is on the line, what keeps you going?
The answer is the most honest thing about you.





Your Hero Has Been Identified
Your Sci-Fi Hero Is…

Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.


Arrakis · Dune

Paul Atreides

You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.

  • You see further ahead than others and you plan accordingly, even when the vision frightens you.
  • You are driven by loyalty to your people and a sense of destiny you didn’t ask for but can’t escape.
  • Paul Atreides is not simply a hero — he is someone who understands the cost of power and chooses to bear it anyway.
  • That gravity, that willingness to carry what others won’t, is exactly you.


USS Enterprise · Star Trek

Captain Kirk

You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.

  • You take the mission seriously without ever taking yourself too seriously.
  • Your crew would follow you anywhere, not because you demand it, but because you’ve earned it.
  • Kirk’s genius isn’t tactical — it’s human. He reads people, bends rules with purpose, and wills outcomes into existence through sheer conviction.
  • That combination of warmth, audacity, and relentless optimism is unmistakably yours.


The Rebellion · Star Wars

Princess Leia

You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.

  • You lead through conviction. Your voice carries because your belief is unshakeable.
  • You gave up everything ordinary the moment you chose the cause, and you’ve never looked back.
  • Leia is not a supporting character in her own story — she is the moral centre of the entire rebellion.
  • That same fierce, principled, unbreakable core is what defines you.


The Nostromo · Alien

Ellen Ripley

You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.

  • You see threats clearly, you document the truth even when no one listens, and when the time comes you handle it yourself.
  • Ripley’s heroism is earned, not performed. She doesn’t have a speech — she has a flamethrower and a plan.
  • You share her composure under the worst possible pressure, and her refusal to pretend the monster isn’t there.
  • When it counts, you don’t flinch. That’s everything.


The Wasteland · Mad Max

Max Rockatansky

You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.

  • You don’t ask for help, don’t need validation, and don’t wait for anyone to tell you the rules no longer apply.
  • Your loyalty, when it finally arrives, is absolute — but it’s earned in silence and tested in action, not in words.
  • Max is not a nihilist. He is someone who lost everything and found, against his will, that he still has something worth protecting.
  • That bruised, stubborn, ultimately human core is exactly yours.

Was ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’ a Box Office Hit?

With a great title and stars such as Rockwell, Michael Peña, Haley Lu Richardson, and Juno Temple on board, one might hope that Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die ​​​​​​could earn some success at the box office. Sadly, it became one of the year’s biggest sci-fi flops so far, earning just $9.1 million against a reported budget of $20 million. Nevertheless, this streaming success following a disappointing theatrical run suggests viewers are starting to realize their mistakes.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is one of the most-streamed movies on Hulu. Stay tuned to Collider for more streaming stories.


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Release Date

February 13, 2026

Runtime

134 Minutes

Director

Gore Verbinski


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