20 Upcoming Movies With UTTERLY INSANE Plots
The most WTF movies currently in the works and releasing in cinemas in 2026 and beyond...
It's the opinion of many that originality in Hollywood is dead, that studios would rather cynically bankroll the same tired ideas over and over again rather than risk rolling the dice on a genuinely unique, inspired concept from an up and coming filmmaker.
And while it's absolutely true that mainstream cinema is dominated by the familiar - namely sequels, remakes, and "reimaginings" - every so often a truly singular vision manages to squeeze through the cracks and make it onto screens big and small.
That's absolutely true of these 20 upcoming films, which represent some of the most fiercely bold works of cinema currently awaiting release.
That of course doesn't mean that each of these films will be great or even good, but at least they're all swinging for the fences and trying to show us something we haven't seen before. In the especially risk-averse climate of modern Hollywood, that's to be respected.
From bonkers time travel yarns to wilder-than-wild sequels, bewildering genre mash-ups, and everything else in-between, these are the films that fans of creatively off-the-wall cinema should want to support. Here's hoping they also manage to deliver the goods...
20. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die release date: February 13, 2026.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die is the latest film from Gore Verbinski (The Ring, Pirates of the Caribbean, A Cure for Wellness) and stars Sam Rockwell as a man who travels from the future to a diner in present day Los Angeles to try and recruit people to help him prevent an AI apocalypse.
Naturally that proves easier said than done given that Rockwell's protagonist looks, well, totally deranged, and from what the trailer has shown off, it sure as hell looks like one hell of a star vehicle for the actor.
He'll also be joined by Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, Juno Temple, and more, in what basically looks like the end-of-the-world comedy last year's Y2K was desperately trying to be.
Early reviews from its premiere at Fantastic Fest back in September have praised the film to the high heavens, so it appears to deliver the dementedly fun goods.