Taking a leaf from the book of Shia LaBeouf, 2DayFM duo Rove McManus and Sam Frost have made the equal-parts brave and foolish decision to put themselves through a gruelling movie marathon, and live-stream themselves while doing it.
The pair won’t be sitting through Shia’s cinematic output. Instead, to prepare for the much-hyped release of The Force Awakens, they’ll be watching the Star Wars movies. All of them. Including the prequels.
That’s six films in total, coming in, by their count, at 13 hours and 16 minutes.
We will be watching 13 hours & 16 mins of @starwars movies from 4pm – 6am AND YOU CAN LIVE STREAM IT ALL!! pic.twitter.com/NxbJCR9zOw
— Rove and Sam (@RoveAndSam) December 13, 2015
Unless a mysterious, robe-wearing man convinces them to rethink their lives, the marathon will kick off at 4pm, running until 6am. You can live stream the whole thing here, should you wish to get in on that.
#ForcedAwake @starswars Marathon
@Rove & @Sam_Frost / 6 films / 4pm-6am
Stream us watching on https://t.co/vf3OP9RQKT
Q&A’s all night
— Rove and Sam (@RoveAndSam) December 13, 2015
Will Ferrell was a guest on Rove & Sam’s show after the announcement, and his advice – to fast-forward through any part of the films containing Jar Jar – is not entirely original, but still fairly solid.
Coming up next we ask Will Ferrell for some advice for our @starwars #ForcedAwake Movie Marathon! pic.twitter.com/6z0zNxvTXP
— Rove and Sam (@RoveAndSam) December 13, 2015
We’ll monitor them over the course of the evening to see how they pull up. May the caffeinated beverages be with them.
Photo: Graham Denholm via Getty Images
