A friend passed me on to this story and I just felt like sharing it.
Melissa, age 34 and known to her friends as Fiver, is an avid Lord of the Rings fans and she was more excited than most to find out about the Hobbit Prequels. But then she was more than disappointed that she is unlikely to live to see them completed. She has Lou Gerig’s disease and the average person lives 3-5 years after diagnosis. She has had the disease for a year now.
Her husband has put together a petition online to hopefully reach out to NewLine and Peter Jackson (and now DelToro if that helps) to get her a gig as an extra in the film.
Project Fiver has the full story.
She is excited about the filming of “The Hobbit” sequels, but was apprehensive about the release dates of 2010 and 2011: She doesn’t even know if she’ll still be alive when these movies are released. I told her to make that her goal : to be around to see these films in the theater. But we don’t know how this disease will go.The goal of PROJECT FIVER is to deliver a petition to Peter Jackson, New Line, and whoever takes the Directorship, asking that Melissa be cast as a costumed hobbit extra in the film. Even if she’s not there when the movies are released, just being part of the production of The Hobbit, even if it’s just sitting at a table in the background, will absolutely mean the world to her. It would be her reason to hang on.
This is inspiring that her friends and family have already gathered nearly 4000 signatures already.
Well International Friends, I ask you to add your names to this list.
It will only take a few moments of your time and if we can get even a fraction of your names to this list it may make a HUGE difference. Not just the tally of the Petition, but to reach out to this fan and make a difference.
I know that many of these petitions rarely turn into anything, but if only to see the number of people who signed it may result in one happy day for this devoted fan, I urge you to take the two minutes to change a life.
Click here to visit the Petition Site and add your name
Visit Project Fiver to read her story.
