Star Trek director grants terminally ill fan's wish by arranging special screening of new film five months before it even comes to theaters



Nice: After hearing about the ill man's desire to see the film, which will not be out in theaters until May, director JJ Abrams took action.

A terminally ill Star Trek fan was granted a wish by the movie's director who arranged for a private viewing of the upcoming film.

After hearing about the ill man's desire to see the film, which will not be out in theaters until May, director JJ Abrams took action.

The terminally ill man was only identified as Dan, a 41-year-old who has two strains of cancer and a rare vascular tumor that is damaging his liver.

The Daily Dot reports that a friend of Dan's posted about his medical plight on Reddit.

'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,' Reddit user ideeeyut wrote in his initial post, attributing that diagnosis to Dan's wife.

The ardent Star Trek fan got his hopes up when creators announced that a 9-minute preview of the upcoming film, titled 'Into Darkeness', would be released.

The problem for Dan, however, came as his illness prevented him from making it to the cinema as the sneak preview is only being shown before select screenings of The Hobbit.

Hundreds of readers saw the original post, and many tried to make something happen by calling out for people with connections in the film industry to use their power for good.



One person listed the contact information for Paramount Pictures, the company producing Into Darkness.

Just two days later, a second friend of Dan's reported back to the Reddit community that the film's director had reached out to Dan.



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'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,' the man who identified himself as Grady Hendrix wrote on December 27.

'I'll never say anything bad about JJ Abrams again. Seriously. He is now beyond reproach as far as I'm concerned.'

The good news did not stop there, as Hendrix updated the group again two days later.

'He got to see it a couple of hours ago and loved it. JJ Abrams is the man,' Hendrix wrote.

'I'm going to buy an extra ticket for Dan when it comes out.'