The Science Museum will keep the doors of its blockbuster Lord of the Rings exhibition open until midnight this Friday and Saturday – to cope with the demand for tickets as visitors rush to catch the show before it leaves Europe.
The exhibition, which contains over 600 props from the films, has attracted over 200,000 fans young and old since opening last September and closes at 10pm this Sunday.
Visitors enjoy an up close and personal encounter with props, costumes and sets from the films at the same time as the final instalment of the film trilogy, The Return of the King, packs out cinemas.
The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy – The Exhibition has already sold more advance tickets than any previous exhibition at the Science Museum. The exhibition (not the Museum) will stay open until midnight on Friday 9 January and Saturday 10 January and until 10pm on Sunday 11 January to cope with the massive demand for tickets. Visitors will need to book in advance to guarantee entry.
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 films 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
Exhibition Until 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)
Opening hours
The Museum has extended the weekend opening hours for this exhibition
Friday – Saturday 10am – midnight
Sunday 10am – 10pm
The exhibition will be open Monday – Thursday 10am – 6pm
For more information, images and interviewees contact: Ben Ayers, 020 7942 4357, b.ayers@nmsi.ac.uk
Alternatively visit the Lord of the Rings exhibition media centre at:
www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/press
Notes to editors:
· Admission to the main galleries of the Science Museum is free.
· The museum is open daily from 10am – 6pm.
· The exhibition is developed and presented by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in partnership with New Line Cinema.
· © 2003 New Line Productions, Inc.; The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, The Return of the King and the characters, events, items and places therein, are the Trademarks of The Saul Zaentz Company, d/b/a Tolkien Enterprises, under license to New Line Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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John Stewart: My guest tonight – an actor starring in the third instalment of the mega Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
Clip shown of Sam, Frodo and Gollum on the cliffs above the Dead City (secret stairs), when Gollum tries to frame Sam for taking the lembas bread. Ends when Gollum says “He took it!”, and the frame freezes on Frodo looking wide-eyed at Sam.
JS: Somebody took it! (audience laughs) Please welcome Elijah Wood! Come on!
Audience claps and the band plays as Elijah comes out and waves. Jon and Elijah shake hands and embrace.
JS: Good to see you.
Elijah Wood: Good to see you as well.
JS: How are ya?
EW: I’m good. Frodo looks pretty ragged that clip.
JS: Oh, he was hungry, he’s tired, he’s with Chris Katan and uh, the other guy… (Elijah laughs and audience laughs) That’s it. Um, now, you’re coming on actually to promote the movie, and we’re hoping to give it a little bump. I know things have been rough with it… (audience starts laughing)
EW: It needs a little help
JS: A little push.
EW: They put… they put us into second high gear, you know… just go out there and rally the troops… get the people into the theatre…
JS: That’s what I’m hoping to do because I think it’s a little film that really can. I think people should see it. (audience laughs)
EW: It’s like… it’s like the little engine that could.
JS: That’s exactly it.
EW: I think that we believe in it, it’s got a lot of love and heart and soul behind it, so…
JS: I agree. I’m looking forward to the fourth one. (audience laughs)
EW: So am I.
JS: What if they… I guarantee you somewhere in Hollywood, someone’s going to go be going “we gotta find a fourth one”… (audience laughs)
EW: Right.
JS: Get me Tolkien on the phone! (audience laughs). Uh…
EW: Exhume the body! Get it out!
JS: There’s gotta be another manuscript (Elijah laughs). With all this… you’ve accomplished all this… tell me the next thing that you would love to do. Is…to be acting, to be anything… what’s the thing you’d love to do the most?
EW: Uh… start a record label.
JS: Seriously?
EW: Yeah, (laughing) I really wanna start a record label. (audience laughs). I’m…
JS: Can I tell you what’s so weird about that?
EW: What?
JS: I happen to play French Horn (audience laughs).
EW: We could… we could release…
JS: You could produce my…
EW: There you go.
JS: Uh, would you… you mean you want to go to clubs and sign bands and that sort of thing or…
EW: Yeah. I mean, I’m a huge, huge music fan and I’ve always wanted to do something in music, but I never wanted to be in a band because I love music too much to mess it up, so… (he laughs, audience and Jon laugh) I thought, you know, I’ll start a label and support acts that I care about and try and get them exposed…
JS: Now, what kind of music do you think you would uh… like what’s the type of music that you enjoy?
EW: It would be pretty varied. My taste is all over the place, so rock, and jazz, and pop…
JS: I enjoy the uh… [not sure of what Jon said here – Mrs. Roxy?] (audience laughs)
EW:I grew… I grew up with rapping…
JS: He taught me to spell. (audience laughs)
EW: Did he? I… he taught me to spell.
JS: You… so you go to clubs and…. do you have somebody in mind right now that you like? Is uh… I don’t want to put you on the spot in terms of a band, but is there… is there someone out there that you’re thinking…
EW: There’s a couple of things… there’s a few things that I’ve got my eye on. Nothing I can really say…
JS: You can’t tell us because then other people dive in there… it’s the whole business.
EW: Well, it’s not necessarily the business… I just don’t know if he would appreciate me mentioning…
JS: Can I say this?…
EW: Yeah?
JS: Keep your eye on this Led Zepplin… I think they’re going places (audience laughs)
EW: You think? I think there’s a bidding war at the moment though…
JS: You think?
EW: Yeah. I don’t….
JS: Is that a dirty business… is that the kind of business you think you could… you could get involved in… I hear everything about the music business, as much as entertainment, is dirty..
EW: It’s worse… the music industry.
JS: The music industry is worse… that’s what I’m suggesting.
EW: Yeah, but I would… I would do it on my own time and not get involved in the politics.
JS: Or, the other way to do it is become a vicious [word beeped out!] (audience laughs)
EW: Well there you go.
JS: Either do it on your…
EW: I have yet to learn those skills, so… (Jon laughs) Exactly!
JS: Why not? That’s my point.
EW: Exactly. Twenty…. I’m about to be 23 and now’s the time.
JS: You’re only going to be… that’s crazy.
EW: Yeah, generally….
JS: You really should get moving. You need to start accomplishing things. Because clearly… (Elijah laughs and audience laughs). When I was 23, uh… I believe I was found laundering naked with my ass cheeks taped together. (audience and Elijah laugh, audience whoops a bit). And that was, if I may say so… one of my better days. (Elijah laughs). Do you have another, uh, movie plan? I mean, this thing went for so long in terms of filming…
EW: Four years…
JS: Do you get back to New Zealand at all?
EW: I do. I do. I’ve been back this year… and last year
JS: A pretty place?
EW: Amazing. Such an amazing place. I mean it…
JS: How many people you’d say are in New Zealand?
EW: Uh… I think it’s… [unsure] three million… in all?
JS: Let me ask you this…
EW: The population’s pretty small.
JS: What are their names? (audience laughs) Is it a place… is there a huge tourist industry? I imagine, there’s… there’s films…
EW: There’s a lot of duncans [not sure of this word] out there, for some reason.
JS: Big on the duncans?
EW: Duncans.
JS: What would be the… the livestock, the animal life.. is there yaks, cattle, what…
EW: Sheep.
JS: Really?
EW: In fact, there are I think 30 or 40 sheep per every New Zealander.
JS: I’m glad they were able to look because I know class size is important for them. (audience laughs)
EW: (laughing) Right.
JS: I don’t even know what the means (Elijah laughs). Uh… do you spend… is it… are the seasons the same as ours, is it….
EW: They’re the same, they’re in reverse, so… it’s in the southern hemisphere, so it would be summer now.
JS: Right, I knew that. (audience laughs)
EW: It’s warm there, yeah… and the water, when you flush the toilets… the water spins in the opposite direction.
JS: Really?
EW: Yeah, and people love that about it.
JS: And this is true… in comedy movies, when you flush the water, it comes up right in your face. (audience laughs)
EW: It does, it does… and you get little… (imitates getting sprayed in the face)
JS: Right, and you do this (imitates getting sprayed)..
EW: Yeah…
JS: And then you turn and look at the camera and go… (simultaneously, Elijah and Jon go “woo!”, putting both hands up and making a goofy face toward the audience) (audience laughs).
EW: Yeah.
JS: Uh, well, I’m so pleased. You’re… you’re one of the nicest people in the business that I’ve known,
EW: Thank you.
JS: and truly a talented guy, I’m just so pleased that everything’s working out for you so well.
EW: Thank you so much.
JS: Good luck with the record label. When you want to hear some real French Horn, you come and let me know.
EW: You know it!
JS: I’ll lay down some beats, that we….
EW: Some fat beats.
JS: Thank you very much.
EW: Rockin’….
JS: Lord of the Rings, Return of the King, in theatres now! Go see it! Elijah Wood! (audience cheers as Elijah shakes hands with Jon)
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