{"id":48968,"date":"2013-01-07T10:52:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T08:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=48968"},"modified":"2013-01-07T10:55:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T08:55:31","slug":"star-trek-director-gives-cancer-patient-early-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/48968-star-trek-director-gives-cancer-patient-early-wish","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek director fulfils cancer sufferer&#8217;s movie preview wish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek director J.J. Abrams has answered a plea from a cancer patient and die-hard Trekkie.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel, a New Yorker, was diagnosed with leukaemia and other unrelated cancer problems, and one of his desires has been to see the upcoming Star Trek movie, Into Darkness, but he was unsure whether he\u2019d ever get to see the film.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel\u2019s friend hit Reddit and asked for help from anyone who could let Daniel see the 10 minute preview that is supposed to play ahead of The Hobbit in US theatres.<\/p>\n<p>After J.J. Abrams heard of the cry for help, the director went the extra mile, pulled some strings, and organised for Daniel to not only watch the preview, but the movie in its entirety \u2013 months ahead of its release.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel\u2019s friend reported back on Reddit after the screening, and posted that Daniel\u2019s wife said: &#8220;We saw it, and we enjoyed it immensely as a film and as a gesture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Daniel\u2019s wife also said that Daniel doesn\u2019t want to be another \u201cinspiring cancer story\u201d, and would rather the gesture be a &#8220;heartfelt message of giving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nAx5i0W-Ar8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/startrek\/comments\/15f7rf\/please_come_to_the_rescue_of_a_star_trek_fan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-17938_105-57561907-1\/j.j-abrams-grants-movie-wish-to-dying-trekkie\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet\u00a0<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/videos\/36226-star-trek-trailer-beams-in.html\">Star Trek trailer beams in<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/30817-star-trek-online-goes-free-to-play-from-tomorrow.html\">Star Trek Online goes free-to-play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/48827-modern-art-created-by-pinball-machine.html\">Modern art created by pinball machine<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45339-starcry-mod-brings-sci-fi-love-to-crysis.html\">StarCry mod brings sci-fi love to Crysis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/48900-gaming-news-wrap-up-2.html\">Gaming news wrap-up<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abrams responds to dying wish of Star Trek fan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":48970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,8320,4446,279,3587,8319],"class_list":["post-48968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-cancer","tag-jj-abrams","tag-movie","tag-star-trek","tag-star-trek-into-darkness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48973,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48968\/revisions\/48973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}