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Wheel lands its first role on the big screen

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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20000215
Author:TOBY ROSE

JULIAN TEMPLE has become the first film maker to shoot on the London Eye. The director, pictured, was completing futuristic scenes in his 18th century film about romantic poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Pandemonium.

Linus Roache, who plays Coleridge, films a flash forward sequence in one of the pods. "I can imagine Samuel Coleridge time travelling into the 21st century," explains Temple.

The team were meant to take over a pod for just one revolution but ended up on the wheel for nearly three hours. "We refused to get off because it was so good, plus we had all this ...

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