Brendan Fraser And Andrew Scott Face Weather Worries For D-Day Launch In ‘Pressure’ Trailer
The trailer for Anthony Maras’ Pressure is here. The Working Title and Studiocanal film lands in theaters May 29 in the U.S. via Focus Features.
Written by David Haig and director Maras, the film captures the tense 72 hours before D-Day, the invasion of the Normandy beaches in World War II. Known as Operation Overlord, the “largest and most dangerous seaborne invasion in history” included 300,000 men, but it faced some inclement weather.
The screenplay is based on Haig’s critically lauded play, which explores the personal and military stresses on Scott’s character Captain James Stagg and how tensions grew between the teams with different weather forecasts for the date of the proposed D-Day.
The clip opens with a failed “dress rehearsal” training op “Tiger,” which ended in bloody ocean waters washing up on beaches. Brendan Fraser’s General Dwight D. Eisenhower seems very discouraged while Kerry Condon’s Captain Kay Summersby tells him not to not blame himself.
In Pressure, Eisenhower and Scott’s meteorologist must navigate weather predictions and the down-to-the-wire timing of conducting the invasion that would determine the Allies’ turning the tide and winning World War II. Two aggressive storms in the forecast send the pair back and forth on conducting the dangerous land, sea and sky seizure of Reims, France.
Chris Messina and Damian Lewis also star. Messina promises a “calm and sunny” D-Day invasion, which Scott’s Stagg disagrees with vehemently. At the end of the trailer, he asserts, “The storms that I’m talking about are real, and the wrath of nature is real.”
The film is produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Cass Marks and Lucas Webb and executive produced by Anna Marsh, Ron Halpern, Joe Naftalin, Anthony Maras, Angela Moneke and Sheeraz Shah.
Focus Features acquired the U.S. rights to the drama-thriller out of AFM. The deal was closed by Anne Cherel and Sophie Leuthreau for Studiocanal with Howard Meyers and Marin Babb for Focus Features, known for success with Working Title’s Darkest Hour WWII film.
