Harrison Ford left behind a ‘Star Wars’ script. It was just sold for $13,600

A draft script from the original “Star Wars” movie trilogy, left in a London home rented by the actor Harrison Ford in the 1970s, has been sold for more than $10,000 at auction.

The fourth draft of the screenplay that became the epic 1977 film “Star Wars: Episode IV — A New

Hope” was unbound and incomplete. But it included iconic scenes, including the one that introduces Chewbacca — the towering, hairy Wookiee who copilots the Millennium Falcon alongside Ford’s character, Han Solo — in a dimly lit tavern.

The script, dated March 15, 1976, and titled “The Adventures of Luke Starkiller,” was sold to an Austrian collector for about $13,600 during a livestreamed auction Saturday. The seller owned the home that Ford had rented while working on the film.

The draft included scenes and characters that were cut from the fifth and final edit. The likable rogue Han Solo, viewed as one of the big draws of the movie franchise, first appears on page 56.

“It’s got his DNA on it. It might even have [Ford’s] sweat on it,” Sarah Torode, an owner of Excalibur Auctions, said during the auction.

The auction sold several other items, including schedules and a letter thought to be from Ford’s agent playfully discussing his career prospects.

Dated April 16, 1976, the typewritten letter begins: “Here’s the bad news. Your contracts with us have expired and if you don’t sign with us again I’m putting out a contract on you. I don’t see [Francis Ford Coppola’s] films for nothing!”

According to the script’s listing on Excalibur Auctions, Ford rented the top two floors of the seller’s house in the Notting Hill suburb of London in the summer of 1976, after he responded to an ad in Britain’s Sunday Times offering a “Flat to Let.”