Originally posted by: rancher
Do you know anything about this?
...most of these original production scripts actually got sold off (not auctioned) starting roughly Summer-Fall 1980. The SW fan club was given first shot at them & then they appeared in small 1/8th sized page ads (bottom of page & near the back the mag.) in the popular sci-fi film magazines at the time in the U.S./Canada (not sure about the rest of the world) until the scripts got sold out. He thought that he likely saw the ad. in STARLOG magazine (Anybody have some issues from this period?) etc.
Something else to add to this the 4th draft-the public version (the pricing was: signed (most expensive), then 4th draft upwards it got cheaper) were all released to the public in 1980. The 1st. wave of these drafts were indeed original copies used during the production/filming by cast & crew. A few were signed as well. The 2nd. wave being reproductions (lower price) of these scripts when the originals that were made available became sold out for a limited time.
If you can verfiy the info. above it would be interesting to know what you find. It may be useful information for yourself if any of it is true. That is if your have too much time on you hands, got those scripts on your mind & don't mind searching for those wasted years. I know that last bit barely makes sense, but I'm guessing you can figure out the secret nod.
Do you know anything about this?
...most of these original production scripts actually got sold off (not auctioned) starting roughly Summer-Fall 1980. The SW fan club was given first shot at them & then they appeared in small 1/8th sized page ads (bottom of page & near the back the mag.) in the popular sci-fi film magazines at the time in the U.S./Canada (not sure about the rest of the world) until the scripts got sold out. He thought that he likely saw the ad. in STARLOG magazine (Anybody have some issues from this period?) etc.
Something else to add to this the 4th draft-the public version (the pricing was: signed (most expensive), then 4th draft upwards it got cheaper) were all released to the public in 1980. The 1st. wave of these drafts were indeed original copies used during the production/filming by cast & crew. A few were signed as well. The 2nd. wave being reproductions (lower price) of these scripts when the originals that were made available became sold out for a limited time.
If you can verfiy the info. above it would be interesting to know what you find. It may be useful information for yourself if any of it is true. That is if your have too much time on you hands, got those scripts on your mind & don't mind searching for those wasted years. I know that last bit barely makes sense, but I'm guessing you can figure out the secret nod.
I had not heard that before but it seems likely. The problem is that a lot of collectors are not necessarily the type of people who really care all that much about the history of the film in the same way that we do--perhaps for those interested in the fourth draft, but for the fifth/shooting draft, a lot of more casual fans just want basically a transcription of the film that they can re-read in place of seeing the movie again, and this is especially enticing when it is autographed by cast and crew. My point is that very few people would be willing to scan or OCR an entire script and post it online, especially when the fifth draft is supposedly available commerically from Lucasfilm. I wonder then if these are the real shooting scripts or the "fake" ones that Lucasfilm put out--these semi-real "final drafts" were officially designated by Lucasfilm as "Public Version"'s. In any case, i am guessing that this contest give-away was the reason how the fourth draft found its way online.
The particular script being auctioned off on Ebay right now for $2000 may very well be one from this series of autographed production scripts from 1979--it certainly looks like its at least a few decades old. Its a shame about the price though; its expensive because of the autographs, not the content itself, and its hard to even verify firstly if this is the script we are looking for and secondly if these autographs, old as they are, are indeed authentic.