Harrison Ford left behind something more than his toothbrush when he departed a London rental.
A draft script from the original Star Wars movie trilogy was discovered in the abode and now has sold for more than $13,000 at auction.
The fourth draft of the screenplay that became the 1977 film Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope was unbound and incomplete. But it did have such memorable scenes as the introduction of Chewbacca in a tavern.
The script, dated March 15, 1976, and titled The Adventures of Luke Starkiller, sold to an Austrian collector for about $13,600 during a livestreamed auction on Saturday. The seller owned the home that Ford had rented while working on the film.
Hans Solo, Ford’s character, first appears on page 56.
“It’s got his DNA on it. It might even have [Ford’s] sweat on it,” Sarah Torode, co-owner of Excalibur Auctions, said during the auction.
The script’s listing on Excalibur Auctions claimed Ford rented the top two floors of the seller’s house in the Notting Hill suburb of London in the summer of 1976.
The owners lived on the lower floors. They claimed they had never heard of Ford or his co-stars Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) and Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), who would drop by occasionally.
