Oscar winner Brendan Fraser (The Whale) will play Dwight D. Eisenhower in Working Title and Studiocanal‘s upcoming D-Day movie Pressure. Fraser joins BAFTA winner Andrew Scott who plays Britain’s Chief Meteorological Officer James Stagg (All of Us Strangers, Ripley).

Anthony Maras (Hotel Mumbai) will direct Pressure, which will start shooting in the UK in September. Olivier Award winner David Haig and Maras wrote the screenplay based on Haig’s play of the same name.

The official synopsis reads: “In the 72 hours leading up to D-Day, all the pieces are in place except for one key element — the British weather. Britain’s Chief Meteorological Officer James Stagg is called upon to deliver the most consequential forecast in history, locking him into a tense standoff with the entire Allied leadership. The wrong conditions could devastate the largest-ever seaborne invasion, while any delay risks German intelligence catching on. With only his trusted aide Captain Kay Summersby to confide in, and haunted by a catastrophic D-Day rehearsal, the final decision rests with Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower. With only hours to go, the fate of the war and the lives of millions hang in the balance.”

Source: Deadline