Since Wednesday and until this evening June 30, a large auction of Hollywood accessories and memorabilia is taking place at the Los Angeles Automobile Museum. Among the list of 1,400 items on offer, the dress worn by Princess Leia and several lightsabers from the Star Wars saga, one of Batman’s vehicles, a Harry Potter uniform, Jeff Bridges’ sunglasses in The Big Lebowski, Al Pacino’s script from Scarface, a Kate Winslett jacket in Titanic, Brad Pitt’s shield in Troy or one of Iron Man’s masks.
With our correspondent in Los Angeles, Loic Pialat
The flagship of these auctions did not find a buyer. The seller wanted at least a million dollars for the white dress, worn by Carrie Fisher, in the very last scene of the Star wars. A dress that we thought had disappeared. It took eight months of work to restore it. But, the proposals did not exceed $975,000.
Another valuable item from the sale, the Batpod, from Batman in The Dark Knighta kind of ultramodern motorcycle: estimate between 1 and 2 million dollars.
The scenario of scarface annotated by its star Al Pacino was trading for him beyond 40,000 dollars. For Daniel Radcliffe’s uniform in The Chamber of Secretsthe second Harry Potter, the interested party had to pay 100,000 dollars, despite the traces of mud and fake blood, memories of the shooting.
That’s a lot, but less than the six-foot-tall doll with a terrifying clown face seen in the horror movie Poltergeistin the early 1980s: 650,000 dollars, which is much more than the estimate of PropstoreAuction, the British house which organizes these auctions.