A revised fourth draft of STAR WARS EPISODE 1: A NEW HOPE - originally titled here as The Adventures of Luke Star Killer as taken from the "Journal of the Whills" by George Lucas (Saga I) STAR WARS (March 15, 1976)

Provenance: This item came from the home of a family in which Harrison Ford stayed during the filming of Star Wars throughout 1976 and is likely his own copy that was left behind along with other items.

The script is incomplete and unbound including pages 1-48, 55-56, 58-88, and the blue pages range from #55-67 and are revisions to the white draft, the pink pages go from #68- 88.

Includes the scene where we first meet CHEWBACCA in the cantina and where HAN SOLO introduces the crew to the Milennium Falcon, among many other famous scenes and lines of dialogue including "Boring conversation anyway".

There were 5 drafts of the first Star Wars script and this 4th revised edition gives an interesting insight into the making of one of the most important blockbuster movies ever made including scenes and characters that were cut from the final edit.

This item comes with Excalibur Auctions certificate of authenticity

Provenance: Star Wars – Harrison Ford memorabilia

The vendor recollects that in 1976 she had an advertisement in The Sunday Times “Flat to Let”. She and her husband were looking for a lodger in their home. Harrison Ford came to see the flat and he liked it. He was an excellent tenant, and very tidy. The rent was paid by the film company.

The vendor didn’t know anything about film stars or celebrities and didn’t know who Harrison Ford was. She and her husband lived on the 4 bottom floors of a house in Elgin Crescent, Notting Hill, London with the separate flat occupied by Harrison on the top two floors. One day their cleaner met Harrison and fainted, they were told the next day by a friend of the cleaner that she had fainted because she had never met a film star before. The vendor told them that they had someone called Harrison Ford as a tenant and admitted that she didn’t know he was a film star, when she subsequently told this to Harrison he found it amusing.

Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia, and Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker visited several times, the vendor didn’t know who they were either and didn’t even know Mark’s name - just calling him “the boy” as that’s what they referred to him as. Harrison’s brother-in-law stayed for a while too. He was an American academic.

Our vendor, husband, and Harrison had a great time together, they all used to sit in the garden drinking. One day her husband took her to a garden centre and bought a lot of plants for the garden because Harrison had given them money to pay for the plants. Summer 1976 was a great time, with Harrison even attending her son’s first birthday party in the garden!

“He was an ideal tenant! It really was a fun time.”