As the auction house Excalibur Auctions in Hertfordshire, north of London, announced on Saturday, the collector’s item was bought by an Austrian collector.
Ford used the script when filming “Star Wars,” the first part of writer-director George Lucas’s science fiction saga, at Elstree Studios north of London. Strictly speaking, it is the fourth draft of the script from March 15, 1976. The incomplete and unbound script contains revisions and on page 56 introduces the space pilot Han Solo – with this role the US actor Ford became a world star at the time.
Ford had left the script in a London apartment he had rented for filming – along with a shooting schedule and a letter from an agent or friend. The landlord found the pieces after he moved out and kept them for decades. The recording plan has now been auctioned for 4,826 pounds, the letter for 177.80 pounds. According to auctioneer Jonathan Torode, the script set a new record for a “Star Wars” script.
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