Elijah Wood may still be waiting around for his starring turn in an Iggy Pop biopic to come to fruition, but in the meantime, the former Frodo actor is taking a more active role in promoting The Apples in Stereo (beyond simply heading up their record label, Simian Records): Wood appears alongside the band’s frontman, Robert Schneider, in a new enjoyably insane promotional video for the Apples’ forthcoming seventh LP, Travellers in Space and Time.

Entitled “Exploring The Universe with Elijah Wood,” the pair explore the electromagnetic potential of fruit (Get it? Apples in… stereo. Yup.), among other clever allusions to the band and/or the band’s new record.

It’s cute, but I kind of enjoyed this Web 3.0.whatever way of dropping a new record a bit more. Either way, check out our favorite hobbit having some fun promoting an indie rock record here or below (via the Playlist):

If Elijah Wood can actually pull off playing Iggy Pop, just give him an Oscar, I say, because I honestly can’t see it happening. I do admire him for trying, but this isn’t Heath Ledger as the Joker territory (or even Hayden Christensen as Bob Dylan, etc). We’re talking about the Godfather of Punk here and even the man himself is opposed to the project. “They can wait for me to be dead,” Pop said in later March. “F*ck you, I won’t do your biopic promo.”

Though Wood is perhaps unfazed by Pop’s objections, he is not unafraid: “I think that the [Iggy Pop biopic] project will see the light of day,” Wood told Nylon. “I’m really excited about it, it just scares the sh*t out of me.”

Trust me, Frodo, we’re all a bit scared about this one.

Iggy Pop has put another nail in the coffin of the rumored biopic starring Elijah Wood as the living punk legend. Speaking at a press conference for his new album Préliminaires, Pop was asked, ”Is the biopic going on?”

“I don’t think so,” Pop replied. “I reacted bad. It opens with my mother and father worrying about me. My father was alive at the time and it felt like an intrusion. They can wait for me to be dead. F*ck you, I won’t do your biopic promo.”

Something tells me sending Frodo on a promo tour for a film about the Godfather of Punk would be a tough sell.