Wil Wheaton and Jerry O’Connell are back onstage together for “Stand By Me’s” 40th anniversary, touring live screening-and-Q&A events that have taken on new weight since the film’s director, Rob Reiner, died in December 2025.

Key Points

• Wheaton, O’Connell and Corey Feldman are touring live reunion events tied to the 1986 film’s 40th anniversary
• The tour was first announced in December 2025 for spring 2026 dates
• Additional fall 2026 and early 2027 dates have since been added
• Rob Reiner, the film’s director, died in December 2025
• The tour’s producers have publicly extended condolences tied to his death

The tour, branded “Stand by Me: The Film and Its Stars 40 Years Later,” was first announced with a spring 2026 leg — stops in Pittsburgh, Bethesda, Raleigh, Anaheim, Seattle and Portland — that would bring Feldman, O’Connell and Wheaton together to discuss making the Stephen King adaptation, according to Consequence’s report on the original announcement.

Two days after that report published, Reiner and his wife Michele died in December 2025, according to Consequence’s coverage of the family’s statement, which also noted their son Nick Reiner was charged in connection with the deaths. The couple’s children asked for privacy and “compassion and humanity” in the statement Consequence reported.

The tour has continued, adding a second run of dates for Nov. 13 in Louisville, Nov. 14 in Dayton, and two January 2027 stops in Glenside, Pennsylvania and Schenectady, New York, according to the event’s own listing at standbymelive.com. Each show runs roughly three hours: a full theatrical screening of the film, a 15-minute intermission, then an hour-plus of moderated cast discussion followed by an audience Q&A built from pre-submitted questions, per the same listing. VIP add-ons include a professional photo with all three actors and a poster signed by the surviving cast.

The production team behind the tour has publicly extended “sincerest condolences to the loved ones and fans of Rob Reiner,” acknowledging his lasting contributions to the film industry, according to its own statement posted on the tour’s website. It’s a notably different atmosphere than the one the tour was built for: a straightforward victory lap for a movie that turned four child actors — Wheaton, O’Connell, Feldman and the late River Phoenix — into a defining Stephen King adaptation.

“Stand By Me,” based on King’s novella “The Body,” opened in theaters in August 1986. Forty years later, three of its stars are still willing to get back on a stage together and talk about it — now doing so in memory of the man who directed them.