Lots include the annotated shooting script for Die Hard and a hand-drawn Halloween card from his Harry Potter co-star Rupert Grint
Alan Rickman’s obsessive attention to detail is revealed in the copious annotations he made on all his scripts, as a number of film-related items from the late actor’s personal collections are put up for auction including screenplays from Die Hard and Harry Potter.
Propstore, the Los Angeles and London-based auction firm that specialises in entertainment industry memorabilia and recently sold a Star Wars lightsaber for £2.7m, is staging a three-day sale in which a number of lots originating from the Alan Rickman archive will be available.
According to the auctioneers, Rickman, who died in 2016, maintained a habit of keeping scripts and other associated items in plastic boxes individual to each film. The most highly valued lot (estimated at £30,000-£60,000) appears to be Rickman’s collection from his film-acting debut, the 1988 thriller Die Hard, in which he played German terrorist Hans Gruber to great acclaim. These include a shooting script, containing many of Rickman’s handwritten notes and alternative dialogue suggestions, a call sheet, press packs, and Rickman’s invitation to the film’s gala preview in London. A prop Treasury note for $100,000 from the same film is also on sale in a separate lot (estimate: £1,000-£2,000).
