--- title: Star Wars Force Awakens: Terminally Ill Fan Dies description: The terminally ill Star Wars fan who was given an early screening of the franchise's latest film died this week, his wife confirmed canonical: https://time.com/4106160/star-wars-patient-early-screening/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-10T14:02:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:28:34.870Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Terminally Ill Stars Wars Fan Dies After Getting Early Screening og:description: The terminally ill Star Wars fan who was given an early screening of the franchise's latest film died this week, his wife confirmed og:url: https://time.com/4106160/star-wars-patient-early-screening/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Terminally Ill Stars Wars Fan Dies After Getting Early Screening twitter:description: The terminally ill Star Wars fan who was given an early screening of the franchise's latest film died this week, his wife confirmed twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Terminally Ill Stars Wars Fan Dies After Getting Early Screening  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Nov 10, 2015 2:02 PM UTC  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Nov 10, 2015 2:02 PM UTC The [terminally ill _Star Wars_ fan](http://time.com/4102195/star-wars-the-force-awakens-forcefordaniel-daniel-fleetwood/) who was given an early screening of the franchise’s latest installment died this week, his wife[ confirmed](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10101585993219058&set=a.784897242858.2275326.38701575&type=3) on Facebook. Daniel Fleetwood, who was given two months to live in July, received a special screening of _Star Wars: The Force Awakens_ last Thursday after a months-long campaign on social media to allow him to see the film before its release next month. The campaign attracted attention from around the world, including retweets from _Star Wars_ stars Mark Hamill and John Boyega. “He is now one with God and with the force,” Ashley Fleetwood wrote on Facebook after her husband’s passing. “He passed in his sleep and in peace. He will always be my idol and my hero.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4106160/star-wars-patient-early-screening/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4106160/star-wars-patient-early-screening/"},"headline":"Terminally Ill Stars Wars Fan Dies After Getting Early Screening","datePublished":"2015-11-10T14:02:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:28:34.870Z","description":"\"He is now one with God and with the force\"","url":"https://time.com/4106160/star-wars-patient-early-screening/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4106160/star-wars-patient-early-screening/","name":"Terminally Ill Stars Wars Fan Dies After Getting Early Screening"}}]}] ```