BUFFALO, N.Y. — The producers of the movie Nightmare Alley, starring Bradley Cooper, said they wanted snow when they were filming in Buffalo.
They got that and more on Thursday when a winter storm buffeted the region.
Production crews braved gale force winds, and wind chills near zero in their game attempt to convert Niagara Square into an appropriate look for a film set in 1940’s.
The conditions didn’t make it easy, but despite that, the filming went on.
Niagara Square has also been closed to traffic since 11 o’clock on Thursday morning and is expected to remain that way until 11pm.
"We got them long johns and they're troopers. Everyone is fine," said the film's producer J. Miles Dale, regarding the 200 cast and crew members involved in today's shoot.
"We're shooing between the gusts and it's going to be a little more of a challenge tonight when we have to get our lighting lifts up, but it's hard to fall a sleep in that wind," Dale said.