'Star Wars' theater plans insane contest: Fans to watch for days | EW.com
A theater chain is determined to find the country’s biggest fan of the iconic sci-fi franchise. But you’d better be prepared to sit a long, long time in theater that might be far, far away to prove it.
Alamo Drafthouse has just announced a viewing endurance contest in Austin that will screen the Star Wars theatrical saga for seven hard-core fan contestants. With just a minimal break between each title, contestants will be challenged to keeping watching a marathon of the space opera spectacle and stay awake, presumably for days. One by one contestants are expected to drop out until only one winner remains.
“At Alamo Drafthouse we’re big fans of Star Wars and testing the boundaries of human endurance,” said Alamo CEO and founder Tim League. “What better way to anoint the ultimate super fan than inviting them to watch these remarkable films on the big screen until they drop? Literally.”
Anybody 21-and-up from any of the 13 states where Alamo has a theater can apply to enter the competition. The contest will begin at 4:45 a.m. on Dec. 17. Alamo’s plan is to screen all the Star Warslive-action feature films starting with Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Contestants then will be among the first to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens when the public screening embargo lifts that same afternoon after they have watched Episodes I-VI.
Then The Force Awakens will play again … and again … and again.
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Anyone up for the challenge???
A theater chain is determined to find the country’s biggest fan of the iconic sci-fi franchise. But you’d better be prepared to sit a long, long time in theater that might be far, far away to prove it.
Alamo Drafthouse has just announced a viewing endurance contest in Austin that will screen the Star Wars theatrical saga for seven hard-core fan contestants. With just a minimal break between each title, contestants will be challenged to keeping watching a marathon of the space opera spectacle and stay awake, presumably for days. One by one contestants are expected to drop out until only one winner remains.
“At Alamo Drafthouse we’re big fans of Star Wars and testing the boundaries of human endurance,” said Alamo CEO and founder Tim League. “What better way to anoint the ultimate super fan than inviting them to watch these remarkable films on the big screen until they drop? Literally.”
Anybody 21-and-up from any of the 13 states where Alamo has a theater can apply to enter the competition. The contest will begin at 4:45 a.m. on Dec. 17. Alamo’s plan is to screen all the Star Warslive-action feature films starting with Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Contestants then will be among the first to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens when the public screening embargo lifts that same afternoon after they have watched Episodes I-VI.
Then The Force Awakens will play again … and again … and again.
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Anyone up for the challenge???
