Mark Hamill Wants Dying Fan to See STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS Early
The 2009 film Fanboys is about a group of friends who try to break into Skywalker Ranch in order to steal a rough cut of The Phantom Menace and watch it before their cancer-stricken friend dies. And while this isn't exactly the same thing, it's hard to ignore the parallels between that movie and the story of Daniel Fleetwood, a Star Wars fan diagnosed with cancer who told KPRC 2 Houston (via Uproxx) "judging by how progressive the disease has gotten in the past two months, I really don’t think that I’ll be able to make it" until the movie officially comes out on the night of December 17th.
Daniel has already surpassed the expectations of his doctors, who told him in July that he'd only have two months to live, but the super fan's dying wish is to see The Force Awakens before he passes away. On October 30th, he earned the support of one of the film's stars: Mark Hamill himself retweeted the following link:
It should be mentioned that director J.J. Abrams granted a similar request to a dying fan back in 2013 when Star Trek Into Darkness came out; we'll have to see if his Disney overlords are as sympathetic as the ones at Paramount were a couple of years ago. Good luck, Daniel — we're pullin' for you.