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California auctioneers Profiles in History said
on Thursday that the 158-page shooting script is marked and
underlined in pencil by Fisher for every page with dialogue for
her character Princess Leia.
The three-day auction in Los Angeles, starting Oct. 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 suddenly in December 2016 after suffering a
heart attack on a flight to Los Angeles just as she was enjoying
a career revival with the re-invigorated "Star Wars" movie
franchise that reunited her with Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill
in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."
The actress was also due to have been the central character in
the ninth film in the franchise, "Star Wars: Episode IX," but
the script for that film is being reworked after her death.
Disney and Lucasfilm announced this week that the release date
for "Episode IX" had been pushed back six months to December
2019 and that J.J. Abrams had been hired to write and direct
after the departure of original director Colin Trevorrow.
Hundreds of other items of personal property and movie
memorabilia owned by Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds, who
died a day after her daughter, are being auctioned in the Oct.
7-9 sale.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; editing by Grant McCool)
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