Pressure Lands in Theaters, Recasting D-Day's 72-Hour Weather Gamble
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Updated · Fox News · May 30
Pressure Lands in Theaters, Recasting D-Day's 72-Hour Weather Gamble
11 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 30
Focus Features' "Pressure" opened in theaters with a PG-13 rating and a 1-hour, 40-minute runtime, centering on the 72 hours before D-Day as meteorologists battle over whether storms would doom the Normandy invasion.
Andrew Scott plays British forecaster James Stagg opposite Brendan Fraser's Dwight D. Eisenhower, with the drama turning on Stagg's storm warning against Irving Krick's sunny forecast and Eisenhower's demand for one final call.
The film also folds in the shadow of Exercise Tiger, the D-Day rehearsal disaster that killed more than 700 U.S. servicemen, sharpening the stakes behind Eisenhower's decision.
Adapted from David Haig's 2014 play, Anthony Maras' second feature is framed as an accessible war thriller led by Scott and Fraser, arriving just ahead of the 82nd anniversary of D-Day.
How did a forgotten meteorologist's controversial forecast save the D-Day invasion from catastrophic failure?
Eisenhower's D-Day choice rested on two rival forecasts. What was the science behind this critical decision?