A movie buff wanted to see ‘Dune 2’ before he died. The director sent his laptop.

“Dune: Part Two,” director Denis Villeneuve’s long-anticipated second chapter of the science-fiction epic, hit theaters this weekend. But it was secretly screened more than six weeks earlier in an unusual location: a palliative care facility, for a movie buff whose last wish was to see the sequel before he died.

With the curtains drawn in a room inside the facility in Quebec, the man, who was in his 50s, and one of his friends watched the film on the screen of Villeneuve’s laptop — which the director’s assistant had flown in that day. Secrecy was paramount — those involved signed nondisclosure agreements and put away their phones to avoid leaks.

Getting the film to the man was a “race against the clock,”Josée Gagnon, whose charity made the moment happen, told The Washington Post.

Gagnon, founder of Canadian charity L’Avant, which is focused on helping people at the end of their lives realize their dreams, detailed the story in a Monday interview and in a recent Facebook post. Gagnon said she was able to speak freely after the film was publicly released, but declined to reveal the man’s identity to protect his privacy.

The man didn’t speak English and had to watch the film with French subtitles, Gagnon told The Post. He“was so weak that we thought he might die while watching the film,” she wrote on Facebook.

The man ultimately was not able to watch the full 2 hours and 46 minutes of the film. He was in pain and saw only about half of it before he had to stop, Gagnon told The Post. He died a few days later.

He died“taking the secret of the film with him,”Gagnon said in her post.