For many fans, the release of Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens was something they’d been waiting their entire lives for.
“He was one of a number of people who were tragically not going to live to see the release of the movie.
Some were children, and some were adults, and I spoke with almost all of them before and after they saw the movie.
It was a movement that gained the support of the entire Star Wars fandom, resulting in many of those fans getting early, private screenings of The Force Awakens before the film was even finished.