A lifelong Star Wars fan with terminal cancer is reaching out over social medial to J.J. Abrams and Disney because he believes they are his only hope of seeing "The Force Awakens" before he dies.

Daniel Fleetwood, 32, of Houston, Texas has a rare form of connective tissue cancer called spindle cell sarcoma.

He was told by his oncologist in July that he had only two months to live.

Despite outlasting the prognosis, the clock is ticking before theatres across the U.S. will start rolling the franchise's signature opening credits on Dec. 18.

While Fleetwood believes that his desire to see Episode VII has inspired him to hang on up to this point, he says his time is running out.

"Judging by how progressive the disease has gotten in the past two months, I really don't think I'll be able to make it," he told NBC.

Hoping to get Fleetwood into an early screening of the film, his wife Ashley tweeted at director J.J. Abrams last week.

The tweet inspired a social media campaign with the hashtag #forcefordaniel that has drawn support from Mark Hamill, who will reprise his iconic role of Luke Skywalker in the latest installment, as well as John Boyega, who is set to play a new character, a Stormtrooper named Finn

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In a tweet on Monday, Ashley Fleetwood said that her husband's lungs are "90 per cent full of tumors (and) time is running out."

Fleetwood's super-fandom has been the subject of media coverage before.

A Star Wars fan since he was eight or nine years old, Fleetwood was profiled by his local newspaper after he camped out and was the first in line to see "Revenge of the Sith."

He also got the first tickets issued at his local theatre for Episodes I and II.

Ashley Fleetwood said that her husband's enduring passion for the franchise, despite his condition, is inspirational.

"He still has that commitment, that drive and that love and I think that is a beautiful thing," she told NBC.

"Even if it is just a movie, that's magic for a lot of people."

Fleetwood is currently in hospice care at home, savouring his final moments with  wife and hoping that someone can grant him his dying wish of immersing himself for a few more hours in the Star Wars universe.

"I really don鈥檛 think I'm going to make it, please do what you can. Help me," said Fleetwood.

An early screening of "The Force Awakens" would not be unprecedented for Abrams and Disney.

In 2013, the director showed a rough cut of "Star Trek into Darkness" to a U.S. film buff, Daniel Craft, with terminal cancer five months before its release. He died just days after seeing the movie.

Pixar, the computer animation studio owned by Disney, also flew a copy of "Up" to a 10-year-old girl with cancer who was too ill to go to a theatre in 2009. She passed away the next day.