The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy – The Exhibition, the Science Museum’s exhibition exposing the secrets behind the making of the hit film trilogy, has welcomed its 100,000th visitor – just seven weeks after opening.
The exhibition, which contains over 600 props from the films, has attracted fans young and old from all over Europe. Visitors enjoy an up-close-and-personal encounter with props, costumes and sets from the films before the final instalment of the film trilogy The Return of the King hits UK cinemas on December 18.
The Science Museum is the only European venue to host the priceless exhibits. Visitors also have a chance to see the first two films of the trilogy at the Science Museum’s cinema.
The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy – The Exhibition had already sold more advance tickets than any previous exhibition at the Science Museum.
Opening hours have been extended to cope with demand and although some tickets are available at the door, advanced booking is the only way to guarantee entry.
Head of the Science Museum, Jon Tucker, said: “We are delighted that the exhibition has been such a hit. We had record numbers of visitors during the half term holidays and our research shows that exhibitions like The Lord of the Rings are introducing a whole new audience to what the Museum has to offer.”
To prevent the advanced filmmaking technology displayed in the exhibition from being copied, the use of cameras and mobile phones is prohibited.
The fascinating exhibition includes:
- Demonstrations of special effects, including the combining of ‘real’ and ‘digital’ action and CGI (computer-generated-image technology).
- A scaling interactive explaining one way that the filmmakers managed to make characters seem different heights, and which allows visitors to become Hobbit sized in a scene from The Fellowship of the Ring – and then buy a print of themselves.
- A display on the prosthetics which transformed actors, including Hobbit hands and feet.
- Weapons belonging to Arwen, Gandalf, Frodo, and Aragorn.
Outfits including Arwen’s riding costume, Galadriel’s stunning dress and Gandalf’s robes.
The exhibition culminates with a face-to-face encounter with the central icon from the films – The One Ring.
Tickets can be pre-booked on 0870 906 3890 24 hours (booking fee applies) or at www.sciencemuseum.org.uk.
The Science Museum will be running a series events during the Christmas holidays investigating traditional and state-of-the-art filmmaking techniques.
Exhibition 16 September 2003 to 11 January 2004
Ticket Prices Monday – Friday: Adults £9.95, Children/Concessions £6.95
Saturday – Sunday: Adults £11.95, Children/Concessions £8.95
Public information and booking line 0870 906 3890 (booking fee applies)
The Museum has extended the weekend opening hours for this exhibition
Friday – Saturday 10am – 9pm Sunday 10am – 7pm
The exhibition will be open Monday – Thursday 10am – 6pm
For more information and images visit The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy – The Exhibition media centre at: www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/press.
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The Official Site has just posted a clip of Craig Parker (Haldir) talking about the art of mastering the sword. It’s very short though – blink and you’ll miss it. Thanks to Ringer Sarah for the link. [More]
However, if you’d like to hear a bit more of Craig’s swordfighting experiences on Lord of the Rings, check out this interview he did with TORn recently. [More]
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Ringer Simon writes: Not sure if anyone else has already told you guys about these, but there are a couple of competitions to win tickets to the World Premiere of RotK in New Zealand open to Australians. [More]
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Ringer Simon writes: Not sure if anyone else has already told you guys about these, but there are a couple of competitions to win tickets to the World Premiere of RotK in New Zealand open to Australians. Firstly, the Greater Union website is offering a double pass to the premiere plus flights and accommodation, but you need to become a member of the website. This is free, but you also need to buy a Greater Union movie ticket between November 6 and November 20 before you can enter.
The other, and more interesting one is being run by KFC and has TV ads to go with it. The ad that I’ve seen includes some footage from RotK which I don’t think has been seen before – at least, it’s definitely not in the sneak-peak included on the theatrical DVD of The Two Towers, and it’s not in the Official RotK Trailer either.
There are close-up shots of Gandalf, Pippin and Gollum, and better, there’s a snippet of dialogue between Frodo and Sam – though I keep missing the first part of the ad and thus I can’t quite recall exactly what the dialogue said. Something vague about running out of time or finishing a journey or something – though as I said, I’m not too sure.
All I know is that I’ve never heard that dialogue before, so it makes for a pretty exciting ad.
The rest of the ad is about the competition, which I didn’t catch all the details on – something about being among “the first in the world” to see the final film in the trilogy on December 1. The ad then has a guy watching RotK in a theatre, while eating KFC’s popcorn chicken, doing a really bad Gollum impersonation that equates the last piece of popcorn chicken left to the One Ring (sacrilegious, I know!!). Then he throws it up into the air and the ad ends with him saying ‘My Precious’ about the popcorn chicken – at which point they put up a web address for the competition website on the screen.
I went to the site and it’s a really cheap promotional site for the comp which has some nice visuals but – wait for it – actually spells Aragorn as Aragon in the interactive poll! I was shocked and appalled!
The site has some downloads I haven’t tried out (some RotK desktop backgrounds and screensavers, and the RotK PC game demo) and gives more details on the competition. Suffice it to say, the best part about either promotion was the new RotK footage they used in the KFC TV ad!
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Ringer Spy Jim pointed out this small bunch of Two Towers EE screencaps – there’s some very intriguing shots in here, and a couple that are sure to please the purists! [More] !!!Spoilers!!!
Ringer Mattforce spotted the following post over on the IGN boards following the posting of these screencaps. [More] !!!Spoilers!!!
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November 29 and 30 will see a huge festival setting up at Waitangi Park in Wellington. A hundred knights and barbarians will beat each other up for your entertainment, there’ll be stalls, games … food galore. If you’ll be in Wellington, it’s sure to be worth checking out. [More]
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