Apparently, God loves irony. The ark built for director Darren Aronofsky's biblical epic Noah , starring Russell Crowe and Emma Watson, is in danger of being damaged or outright destroyed by, yes, a massive storm.

Hurricane Sandy forced the film to postpone production Monday. According to the L.A. Times , "Aronofsky’s production team built two massive ships—one inside a Brooklyn sound stage, the other in the water at Oyster Bay, N.Y. And Oyster Bay, a small inlet on the Long Island Sound, is very much in the path of Hurricane Sandy, with local flooding and wind gusts of up to 63 mph reported in the area."The mock ark -- measuring 450 feet long and 75 x 45 feet wide -- had already been partially deconstructed because filming is wrapping up soon. Obviously, if Hurricane Sandy damages what's left of the ship, which was not built to actually be seaworthy, then further delays are to be expected.Meanwhile, The Hollywood Reporter says Hurricane Sandy has also forced the crew of the HMS Bounty, used as the titular vessel in the Marlon Brando classic Mutiny on the Bounty and as one of the tall ships in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, to (safely) abandon ship off the coast of North Carolina.