Megaplex Theatres announced Saturday that it will host a nine-film, 21-hour “Star Wars Marathon” event in December.
The event will last from 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 18, until about 8 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 19. The films will run for 21 hours total. Breaks will be included so the marathon will last about 26.5 hours total.
Attendees will receive a commemorative pin and blanket, along with exclusive food and concession offers. The group will be among the first to see the new “Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker,” which will begin at 5 p.m. on Dec. 19.
Seats for event will cost $99 for the movie ticket plus a marathon comfort kit, which includes a souvenir popcorn tin with unlimited popcorn and a souvenir cup with unlimited soda.
Tickets go on sale Monday — the same day tickets for “Rise of Skywalker” will go on sale.
Marathon guests can buy a Megaplex Marathon Meal Plan, which includes three meals and a midnight snack. The meal plan costs $39.95. Breakfast includes breakfast burritos, yogurt and pastries from Meiers Catering. The lunch comes from Cafe Zupas and dinner is a Cafe Rio taco bar.
The marathon will run chronologically, beginning with “Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace” and ending with “Rise of Skywalker.” That is to say, the marathon will stretch from the prequel trilogy to the original trilogy to the sequel trilogy.
“Solo: A Star Wars Story” and “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” are not included in the marathon.
Here’s a breakdown of the schedule, according to a press release from Megaplex:
Megaplex Theatres has embraced these marathons before. In June, the Megaplex hosted a “Toy Story 4” marathon, showing all four “Toy Story” films back-to-back-to-back-to-back. It made this reporter cry for Woody and Buzz and embrace the beauty of moving on and finding communication.
Your reporter also attended the Marvel movie marathon back in April, seeing 22 films within 61.5 hours. Sleeping overnight, your reporter drank cups and cups and cups of soda and ate buckets of popcorn during that marathon in lead up to the release of “Avengers: Endgame.”