Star Wars: The Force Awakens is hitting theaters nationwide on Dec. 18 -- but the Internet is trying to help one terminally ill superfan see it before then.
Daniel Fleetwood of Spring, Texas, suffers from a rare connective tissue cancer called spindle cell sarcoma.
"Judging by how progressive the disease has gotten in the past two months, I don't think I'll be able to make it [to the movie]," the 32-year-old Star Wars fan told Click 2 Houston. "I just love Star Wars. With everything I got, I love Star Wars."
"I really don't think that I'm gonna make it," Fleetwood said. "Please do what you can. Help me."
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In July, Fleetwood's doctor gave him only two months to live. But he is still hanging onto life in hospice care, living with his wife Ashley. "It's a commitment and he still has that commitment, that drive, and that love, and I think that it's a beautiful thing," Ashley says in the video below. "Even if it's just a movie. That's magic for a lot of people."
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Fleetwood's story has prompted the hashtag #ForceForDaniel, an attempt to persuade Walt Disney Studios to give Fleetwood his own early screening of the movie.
Oh wow. Come on @Disney, Give the #ForceForDaniel...— Norman Lloyd Simo (@SigCowengTorr) November 3, 2015
Please make this dying guy's wish come come true & let him see The Force Awakens early! #ForceForDaniel— Steve Gulliver (@Steve_Gulliver) November 3, 2015
The move wouldn't be unprecedented. In 2009, Colby Curtin was able to see the Disney/Pixar movie Up before its release; the 10-year-old with a rare form of cancer died just seven hours after watching the film.
Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the original trilogy; John Boyega, who will play Finn in the upcoming movie; and Peter Mayhew, the man behind the mask of Chewbacca, are all supporting the cause.
.@starwars @bad_robot #ForceAwakens #ForceForDaniel https://t.co/b6CbtIerYW— Peter Mayhew (@TheWookieeRoars) November 3, 2015
"Even if we don't get to see the movie, for me, personally, just everyone caring so much, it matters so much," Ashley, Fleetwood's wife, told NBC News.
#forcefordaniel help my man get his last wish, to see a screening of Star Wars before cancer takes him. @bad_robot pic.twitter.com/XCuYD0KlpY— Ashley Fleetwood (@pandorashley) October 29, 2015
A scan of Fleetwood's lungs on Monday revealed that tumors had spread and are nearly covering his lungs, so we hope that Disney acts fast.