Alamo Drafthouse To Host Ultimate Star Wars Marathon

Alamo Drafthouse is looking for the ultimate Star Wars super fan.

To do so, it’s hosting a Star Wars movie marathon on Dec. 17, just one day before the seventh installment in the intergalactic space saga, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is released.

Seven Star Wars fans will be chosen, but in the end only one will be proclaimed the ultimate fan.

The marathon will start at 4 a.m. on Dec. 17 as pre-selected fans take their seats at the movie theater’s South Lamar location. When the fans are ready, the first six Star Wars movies will be shown in order. After that,d the seventh movie will be shown on repeat until only one fan is left watching.

“At Alamo Drafthouse we’re big fans of STAR WARS and testing the boundaries of human endurance,” said Tim League, CEO and Founder of Alamo Drafthouse, in a statement. “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.”

There are some rules though. Marathoners will not be allowed to fall asleep, talk, text or use any illegal drugs. However the super fans will be able to take short breaks in between movies to stretch and, “channel their inner Force.”

Other than securing a place in galactic history, the winner will receive a seven-year movie pass to Alamo Drafthouse, a complete set of 2015 and 2016 Topps Star Wars Card Reader cards, and a selection of STAR WARS Mondo prints.

So how are the seven fans selected? By public displays of fandom of course.

Alamo Drafthouse will choose the seven marathon participants by judging social media posts on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter to the @alamodrafthouse account and tagged with #AlamoJedi. The movie theater encourages applicants to post anything it takes to prove they are the most devoted Star Wars fans, but photos depicting sex, nudity or violence are not allowed. Also, there’s a limit of one entry per person.

Anyone interested in this opportunity better act quickly though, the deadline for photo submissions is Dec. 10 at 11:50 p.m.

Applicants must be over 21 years of age and from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Virginia or the District of Columbia.

[Photo courtesy of Bruce Turner]