You’ve probably seen a World War II movie before. You probably haven’t seen one about the weather.
Directed by Anthony Maras (“Hotel Mumbai”), the real-life historical thriller “Pressure” (in theaters May 29), starring Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser, follows the intense days before D-Day. With potentially disastrous storms brewing around the English Channel, Allied forces have to decide whether to proceed with the invasion of Normandy on the planned date – Monday, June 5, 1944 – or postpone and risk losing the war. (Ultimately, they landed on the morning of June 6 during a break in the bad weather.)
"Nature doesn't care about our feelings or what we’re really going to get up to," Fraser says. "In our human arrogance, we can think it's the other way around, but we will be wrong."
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The film, an adaptation of David Haig’s 2014 play, features Scott as Capt. James Stagg, a prickly Scottish meteorologist who has to deliver his important weather report to an intimidating group of military leaders, including Allied commander Dwight D. Eisenhower (Fraser).
