The papers that the actor left in his house from the time where he filmed the film when he moved included George Lucas’ filming plans.
He script of the first “Star Wars” movie or “Star Wars” what the actor used Harrison Ford to study the lyrics found a buyer this Saturday in a auction. Also sold were shooting plans from the beginning of the saga created by George Lucas.
During the months of filming in the United Kingdom of the first installment of the film, later known as “Episode IV: A New Hope”, the actor, then 34 years old, rented the ground floor of a house where other protagonists of the film paraded, such as Carrie Fisher either Mark Hamill. When he left that house in London, he left some belongings among which were the script and the shooting plan which he managed during the six months of work at Elstree studios.
“No one expected back then that it would become the great film that it was,” explained Jonathan Torode, from Excalibur Auctions, and head of auctions at a house specialized in all types of collecting (trains, cars, movie figures…) to the Spanish newspaper El País.
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“Part of the filming was in the United Kingdom, which had magnificent facilities, and part in Tunisia. Today we all refer to it as Episode IV: A New Hope, but back then it was popularly known as Star Wars dry. And Ford was not yet as famous as he is now, he had only participated in a couple of films. The family got to know him quite well. She invited him to her son’s birthday, and even bought them some plants for his garden. They remember him as a kind, clean and orderly guy,” said Torode.
Along with the movie script, there are a couple of copies of the shooting plan and some technical notes from Ford himself. In addition, a letter from his agent in which he encourages the actor to sign a couple of contracts that he had pending, for which he asks for around one hundred euros.
Ford did not record any revealing personal details, and your copy of the script is pristine, which gives an idea of the actor’s way of working. “We have hired several specialists who They have confirmed to us that it was Ford’s handwriting. There is a note, for example, in which it is noted: ‘It is the first sequence in which Han Solo enters the cantina,’ and others that he uses to remember that he has met for dinner with some friends,” said Torode.
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Everything that has to do with the Star Wars saga generates enormous expectations and the person responsible for the auction assured that they work “a lot with everything that is related to Star Wars. We are specialists in this type of collection material. And it doesn’t stop growing, it’s gigantic.”
How much was paid for an original script for the first Star Wars movie
This original script It is the fourth revised draft of a total of five, dated March 15, 1976, and had initially been valued at 9,352 euros. As of today it is in the hands of a buyer who resides in Austria and that he paid the almost 10,000 euros. For their part, the shooting plans were sold by 4,400 euros.
Source: Ambito
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