The air feels heavier when history breathes close. As the reels roll back to destructive times, the pages have not simply turned, but rustled under the gathering storm light. Andrew Scott, with the ink stains of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery freshly washed off, has taken to measuring the sky, while Brendan Fraser stands where decisions reshape continents.

Time folds inward toward its most fateful dawn in their new collaboration. And the first glance at this very fate's retelling has forecast what the audience can wait for.

Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser have taken on the wind's direction for their new film, and the trailer reveals exactly how ominous things can get under pressure. 

Pressure draws its circle tight around three figures standing at history’s nerve center. Andrew Scott has inhabited meteorologist James Stagg, as Brendan Fraser stepped into the shoes of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. They are aided by Kerry Condon, who becomes aide Kay Summersby.

Ahead of the film's May 29, 2026, theatrical release, a trailer dropped on February 19 has opened a narrow window into seventy-two breathless hours before invasion had redrawn the world map in the 1940s. 

Scott shapes James Stagg as a man wrestling with clouds as though they were adversaries, while Fraser presents General Eisenhower not as a monument but as a mortal strategist, burdened by consequences. Kerry Condon lends Summersby quiet steel amid swelling unease. Around them orbit Chris Messina as forecaster Irving P. Krick and Damian Lewis as General Bernard Montgomery, completing a chamber of calibrated tension.

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Behind the weight of the decisions made under Pressure, there surely lies a crew that did not give away. 

The film stands on foundations built by formidable production houses. Working Title Films, known for sweeping prestige such as Les Misérables, joins forces with Studio Canal, the banner behind phenomena like Paddington, We Live in Time, Sting, and many others. In addition, direction comes from Anthony Maras, with writing by David Haig.

Distribution of the film rests with Focus Features, ensuring a wide theatrical corridor.

Pressure marks Andrew Scott's first pressing project after the vulnerable tryst in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Filming for Pressure had commenced in September 2024, with casting news steadily amplifying anticipation. The trailer’s solemn cadence suggests a box office presence shaped by restraint rather than spectacle. 

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