Dying Trek fan to get STID personal screening

[SalvorHardin]

Fucking cancer...

The friend and wife of a dying "Star Trek" fan have both made an impassioned and heartbreaking plea on Reddit: to let the man see at least the 10-minute preview of "Star Trek Into Darkness":

“My amazing healthy film buff husband diagnosed with leukemia (CML) at 38 had to endure 3 rounds of chemo before they found a bone marrow donor match had a Bone Marrow Transplant, which was MORE chemo, full body radiation & lots of other horrific things….then endured/survived 3 major infections + a massive GI bleed that put him in the hospital 10+ times over 3 1/2 years not to mention 100′s of doctors visits…. he is my hero; I am his caregiver – I would do anything to help him…. he is now ravaged by a new TOTALLY UNRELATED cancer, (isn’t that a fucker?) an aggressive and EXTREMELY rare vascular tumor that is crowding out his healthy liver tissue… they grew under treatment; there is nothing left to do but make him comfortable, at 41, he is jaundice & his liver is enlarged, his body has had enough, he has weeks to live.[...]“ Sure enough, it gained enough traction that people went out of their way to plead to Bad Robot, J.J. Abrams’ production company, to make the dying man’s dream come true.

JJ Abrams himself just contacted my friend's wife about screening ST2. Thanks to everyone. A little misty-eyed here.

Thanks everyone, and a huge thanks to OP ideeyut for posting this. JJ Abrams just called Dan's wife and left a message. He's going to try to arrange a screening for Dan, either of the film or at least of the 9 minute promo reel.

http://geek-news.mtv.com/2012/12/27/star-trek-fan-reddit/
http://www.filmophilia.com/2012/12/...ersonal-screening-of-star-trek-into-darkness/

 

[F. King Daniel]

I'd heard about that, and I'm so glad he gets to see it!

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Bless them all.

 

[Jeyl]

Nice.

 

[BillJ]

Hopefully the fan gets a full screening of the film.

Fuck cancer.

 

[Sindatur]

Really cool of Bad Robot to do this

 

[tmosler]

That is so cool

 

[Rhaven]

Kudos to Bad Robot and Abrams.
Cancer sucks.

 

[Kirby]

A truly classy thing to do for this gentleman. Nice job Mr. Abrams!

Fuck you cancer.

 

[Garak]

What tremendously sad but heart warming story.

 

[Borgminister]

Full screening and Godspeed...

 

[BorgPhil]

That is awesome. I don't mean to sound harsh though, but you can understand why they might turn this sort of request down, you just know you would get people trying to abuse it.

 

[indranee]

Hope he gets to see the actual movie, not just the 9-min reel.

 

[thumbtack]

Very nice!

 

[tmosler]

If this happends I will never say anything bad about JJ Abrams again and I wont even care if he puts a billion lens flares in the movie!

 

[SalvorHardin]

Trekmovie now also has an article up.

TrekMovie has confirmed that they reached out to the family and are working on a plan to get this fan some kind of screening.
Of course the film itself is not actually in a complete form. For example at the recent Bad Robot event, composer Michael Giacchino confirmed he hasn’t recorded any music beyond what was needed for the nine minute preview.
However, TrekMovie has been told that some kind of "rough form" of the film will be screened for the dying fan sometime soon.

http://trekmovie.com/2012/12/28/fan...r-early-screening-of-star-trek-into-darkness/

 

[ralph]

He is a hero. Star Trek has always brought hope to humanity. Good luck, friend, never lose hope

 

[R. Star]

Awesome gesture. I wish we saw things like this in the world more often.

 

[Amaris]

That is wonderful that he will get a chance to see this. Way to go, J.J., and everyone at Bad Robot.

Also, fuck cancer.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Early rough cut to be shown -- to a fan!

here we go!

JJ is way cool to show this guy a rough cut of the film...