12 Films. 12 Weeks. There are worse ways to spend a summer.

It Never Rains. It Just Never Does.

August 23, 2009 at 8:02 pm | Posted in Keith Boynton | 1 Comment
Tags: bastard people, irony, rain, weather, wrath of the gods

As Mike mentioned in his last post, the original plan for yesterday’s shoot was to film on the Coney Island boardwalk, which Mike, Clint and I spent Friday afternoon scouting.  When we got home from our excursion, the weather forecast for the next day was looking dire.  Thunderstorms all day, hurricanes off the coast — not quite apocalyptic, but close.  Around 9 PM, Mike and I had a somewhat despairing dinner meeting at Bombay Dream.  We concluded that going ahead with the shoot as planned would be madness, and we contemplated postponing till Sunday — though Sunday’s forecast was only mildly more encouraging.  Finally, I pitched a radically re-envisioned version of the script, one that we could film almost entirely indoors, in my friend Tawse’s apartment, where we also shot “After Perfect.”  This seemed like a manageable compromise, allowing us to keep to our original schedule without exposing us to the full unadulterated wrath of the gods.  Score one for last-minute replanning!

Of course, those of you who were in New York yesterday know exactly what happened.  Those of you who have trusted weather forecasts before know it too.

Not a drop.  Not a drop.  Not that I could tell, anyway, from the safety of my sweltering little interior location.

This is the second time Weather.com has pulled a fast one on us — the first being “Moving Pictures,” on which we similarly scrambled to avoid a weather pattern that never materialized.  It’s time to officially add Weather.com to the list of websites that hate us.  And on top of that, IMDb still hasn’t listed our movies, even though our good friend Gina Duncan submitted them weeks ago!

Come on, Internet.  What did we ever do to you?

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