When Harrison Ford left his rental home in London after shooting George Lucas’ Star Wars: A New Hope, the actor left behind his script for the film. That abandoned script was dated March 15, 1976, and titled The Adventures of Luke Starkiller.
Well, the owner of the home that Ford rented, found the script and recently sold it at an auction to an Austrian collector for about $13,600 during a livestreamed auction on Saturday.
This script was the fourth draft of the screenplay that eventually became Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope and it was unbound and incomplete. It also included personal notes written by Ford, and it had differing-coloured pages indicating revisions and it also included scenes and characters cut from the final edit.
Sarah Torode, co-owner of Excalibur Auctions, said during the auction, “It’s got his DNA on it. It might even have [Ford’s] sweat on it.” I guess Ford’s bodily fluids helped in upping the price!?
The script’s listing on Excalibur Auctions said that 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 and Mark Hamill, who stopped by occasionally.
