US EditionThe Mummy and Sherlock Legends Star in First Look Trailer for Tense D-Day Historical Drama
Focus Features’ film dramatizes the critical 72 hours before D-Day, focusing on the weather forecast that decided the invasion’s fate, releasing May 29.
- Focus Features released the first trailer for Pressure, starring Brendan Fraser as General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Andrew Scott as Captain James Stagg with a U.S. release on Friday, May 29.
- Directed by Anthony Maras and co-written with David Haig, Pressure adapts Haig’s 2014 Edinburgh Fringe stage play and unfolds over the 72 hours before D-Day.
- The trailer toggles between war-room scenes and sweeping storm footage as Stagg’s forecast warns two aggressive storms are approaching, treating cloud analysis as life-or-death science.
- The fate of thousands of Allied troops depends on weather and timing, as General Dwight D. Eisenhower must decide to proceed or delay Operation Overlord’s 300,000-men invasion at Normandy beaches.
- Fraser and an ensemble position Pressure as a prestige acting showcase, comparing it to Das Boot and Dunkirk while centering meteorology as the film’s dramatic engine.
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The Mummy and Sherlock legends star in first look trailer for tense D-Day historical drama
The first trailer for World War II drama Pressure has been unveiled – and it gives fans a first look at Brendan Fraser (The Mummy) and Andrew Scott (Sherlock) in action.The drama, which is based on David Haig’s acclaimed play, follows Dwight D Eisenhower (Fraser) and Royal Air Force meteorologist Captain James Stagg (Scott) in the three day run up to the D-Day landings as they weigh up the risks, which include the volatile weather."The final dec…
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, […]
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