Brendan Fraser To Star As Dwight D. Eisenhower In D-Day Movie ‘Pressure’ About The Historic Normandy Landings
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Brendan Fraser (The Whale) has been set to play Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D.
Eisenhower in Working Title and Studiocanal‘s upcoming D-Day movie Pressure. Fraser joins BAFTA winner Andrew Scott, who as we revealed Friday will star in the ticking-clock drama about the tense days leading up to the Normandy landings.
The true story will see All of Us Strangers and Ripley star Scott play Britain’s Chief Meteorological Officer James Stagg, whose job it was to inform Eisenhower of weather conditions that would make or break their Normandy invasion.
The complex decision-making was critical in the fate of the war and the course of history. Army General Eisenhower, nicknamed Ike, was lauded for his leadership during the war and would go on to become the 34th U.S.
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