Nothing like a little social media miracle to restore your faith in humanity.
It’s true. Director J.J. Abrams granted Daniel, a 41-year-old Manhattan resident stricken with two forms of cancer, an awesome late holiday wish. He was able to see “Into Darkness” early after his story was posted on Reddit.
Daniel went to see “The Hobbit” to catch the 10-minute preview of the movie, but the theater ended up not showing it. He was worried his declining health would prevent him from seeing the movie, scheduled to be released in May.
His friend posted on behalf of his wife:
“We, his friends and family, the love of my life – WOULD LOVE him to be able to see the Star Trek movie but even the 10 minutes of the trailer would be AMAZING. If there is anything any one of you or anyone you know could do to make this happen that would be an amazing, kind and generous thing. Please help. Thanks.”
Like the strong community of fans they are, other Trekkies got wind of this and eventually one of them Tweeted to Abrams’ production company, Bad Robot and actor Simon Pegg, among others:
“Star Trek fan ravaged by cancer, grant his last wish, please, so sad.”
And it happened. He saw the flick and, of course, his wife was delighted and later relayed the message, later posted on the same Reditt thread:
“… it was truely (sp) amazing that a film-maker so secretive as JJ Abrams was kind enough to show this to us. It is also so wonderful for his friends & his family to finally hear some good news from us, they know how important film is to Daniel & could not think of a better way to please him. So this gesture really has brought a lot of smiles all around. it was a wonderful thing to see with Daniel and a wonderful thing to see Daniel enjoy – Making someone as ill as he is smile for any length of time really makes a difference.”
Something like this should give every geek a bit of a smile today.