SUBMITTED BY Scooby

October 4, 2002 — CD Scooper 'Chester Mann' sends in this report from The Day After Tomorrow set:

Chester Mann, long time reader first time poster, here with an on-set report from 20th Century Foxes new Disaster film The Day After Tomorrow. I worked on-set early this morning. Picture for yourself a lower-class downtown Los Angeles neighborhood at the crack of dawn, sun barley rising it's lazy head over the horizon, dew dancing on car windshields, birds chirping ever so happily and 3, COUNT THEM, 3 HURRICANES IN ALL DIRECTIONS. That was my early morning. The scene was of a Fox11 news van driving up the street and broadcasting an attack on Los Angeles by that b**ch, Mother Nature. They used HUGE wind machines to create the three tornadoes in each direction (The real ones will be CGI) and a HUGE helicopter that hovered 200-300ft above us, that was my favorite part. There was debris flying all over. Neither Jake Gyllenhaal nor Dennis Quaid were on-set, but director Roland Emmerich was. During filming he had a smile on his face like a kid in a candy store.... So did I!