A draft of an original script that belonged to the American actor Harrison Ford from the first film in the series Star Wars (1977) was sold this Saturday, February 17, 2024, for 10,795 pounds (12,620 euros), as confirmed by the Excalibur Auctions showroom.
The original script for the film ‘A New Hope’ is the fourth revised draft of a total of five, dated March 15, 1976, and had initially been valued at 8,000 pounds (9,352 euros).
That eraser was used when Ford It was filmed at the British studios in Elstree, in the county of Hertfordshire, in the United Kingdom, and it was the first time that the Hollywood star participated in the franchise, giving life to the iconic character of Han Solo.
Apparently, Ford He forgot it in the London apartment he rented while filming the film, and later the landlords of the house would find it among other properties that they stored for more than 50 years and that today his grandchildren auctioned.
Ford then had a budget allocated by the studios with which he searched for and rented the apartment located in the famous and central London neighborhood of Notting Hill, west of the British capital, to be able to easily travel to filming, and it was in that house where the interpreter forged a solid friendship with the family that owned it.
The owners of the apartment did not know who he was then. Ford and they commented on him that he was “an excellent tenant, very orderly”, with whom they frequently shared a drink in the garden when he finished recording, according to what they told the auction house.
Despite being incomplete, the script includes scenes and characters that would end up disappearing from the final cut. EFE