Star Wars script left in a London flat sells for nearly £11,000
- The distinctive script was purchased by an Austrian personal collector for £10,795
A script for the primary Star Wars movie that was left in a London flat has been offered for nearly £11,000.
Actor Harrison Ford, who performed Han Solo, used the script in 1976 and left it in a flat in London that he was renting on the tine whereas he filmed at Elstree Studios.
The script was the fourth draft of the screenplay for the primary Star Wars film, initially titled The Adventures Of Luke Starkiller, had an estimated promoting worth of £8,000-£12,000.
This distinctive piece of film historical past was purchased by an Austrian personal collector for £10,795.
The script (pictured) was the fourth draft of the screenplay for the primary Star Wars film and was initially titled The Adventures Of Luke Starkiller. It offered for £10,795 to an Austrian personal collector
Actor Harrison Ford (pictured), who performed Han Solo, used the script in 1976 and left it in a flat in London that he was renting on the tine whereas he filmed at Elstree Studios
The distinctive piece of film historical past had an estimated promoting worth of £8,000-£12,000
It is incomplete and unbound, with differing-coloured pages indicating revisions – and contains scenes and characters that have been lower from the ultimate edit.
On web page 56, Harrison Ford is launched because the cynical hero Han Solo within the George Lucas script, based on Excalibur Auctions in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire.
The script wasn’t the one factor that Ford left behind within the flat.
Other gadgets included taking pictures schedules, a name sheet and collections of notes which offered in a bundle to a UK purchaser for £4,826.
These sheets of paper included a handwritten notice which appeared to seek advice from a gathering between Ford and British producer Robert Watts.
Watts and Ford would go onto work on 1981’s Raiders Of The Lost Ark, 1983’s Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom and 1989’s Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade.
The gadgets had been tucked away for 50 years in a personal house in Notting Hill, London.
The house owners of the house had rented out the highest two flooring to Ford, who had co-stars Carrie Fisher, who performed Princess Leia, and Mark Hamill, who starred as Luke Skywalker, go to him throughout his keep.
Pictured: Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker (left), Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia (center) and Ford Harrison as Han Solo (proper) within the Star Wars Episode IV, A New Hope
The script is incomplete and unbound, with differing-coloured pages indicating revisions – and contains scenes and characters that have been lower from the ultimate edit. Other gadgets left within the flat included taking pictures schedules, a name sheet and collections of notes
Another merchandise offered was a typed letter (pictured) from a buddy wherein Ford is requested about why he has not known as his spouse, Mary Marquardt, earlier than they divorced in 1979. The letter, date April 16 1976, additionally mentioned his contracts and future movie prospects and was offered for £177.80
Ford shot to fame after starring as Solo in George Lucas’s 1977 science fiction epic. He appeared within the unique film’s sequels, The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return Of The Jedi (1983), earlier than reprising the function for The Force Awakens in 2015.
Star Wars creator Lucas and director Steven Spielberg would additionally forged Ford in one other well-known function, as archaeologist Indiana Jones, for Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Ford appeared in 4 sequels, the final of which was launched final yr.
Another merchandise offered was a typed letter from a buddy wherein Ford is requested about why he has not known as his spouse, Mary Marquardt, earlier than they divorced in 1979.
The letter, date April 16 1976, additionally mentioned his contracts and future movie prospects and was offered for £177.80.
Ford would go on to marry E.T. screenwriter Melissa Mathison earlier than in addition they ended their marriage in 2004. She died in 2015.
Ally McBeal star Calista Flockhart has been Ford’s spouse since 2010.
Pictured: Peter Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin in Episode IV, A New Hope
Pictured: An imperial Stormtrooper costume (proper) from Episode IV, A New Hope
Excalibur Auctions’ auctioneer Jonathan Torode mentioned: ‘The sale noticed aggressive bidding from across the globe for these never-before-seen items of Star Wars historical past.
‘Although different copies of this script have come to market beforehand, this sale noticed a brand new report set for a Star Walker script, which exhibits how a private hyperlink to the gadgets is so attractive to Star Wars followers.
‘The private provenance makes them completely distinctive. We hope they are going to be as treasured by their new house owners as a lot as they have been by the earlier ones.’
All figures embrace the client’s premium.
