Bid for Fisher’s ‘Star Wars’ script

Carrie Fisher’s hand-annotated script for her Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back movie is expected to fetch up to $50,000 (Dh183,675) at an auction in October of her personal property.

California auctioneers Profiles in History said the 158-page shooting script is marked in pencil by Fisher for every page with dialogue for her character Princess Leia.

The three-day auction in Los Angeles, starting October 7, will also include bound presentation scripts signed by movie director George Lucas for the 1977 first Star Wars movie, and sequels The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Those three are expected to fetch $20-$30,000 each.

“To Carrie May the force be with you. George,” reads the inscription on the Empire Strikes Back script.

Fisher, 60, died in December 2016 after suffering a heart attack on a flight to Los Angeles just as she was enjoying a career revival with the Star

movie franchise that reunited her with Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

The actress was due to have been the central character in the ninth film, Star Wars: Episode IX, but the script is being reworked after her death.

Disney and Lucasfilm announced this week the release date for Episode IX had been pushed back to December 2019 and J.J. Abrams had been hired to write and direct it. —Reuters