The countdown to D-Day begins within the trailer for the brand new World Struggle II film, Stress, starring Brendan Fraser.
Fraser turned an enormous star in The Mummy trilogy between 1999 and 2008 and although his momentum light throughout the next decade because of numerous causes, his profession was revitalized by The Whale in 2022, which received him the Academy Award for Finest Actor. Since then, he is starred in Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), Brothers (2024), and Rental Household (2025).
Now, Focus Options has premiered the primary official trailer for Stress, following Brendan Fraser as Basic Dwight D. Eisenhower through the crucial 72 hours earlier than D-Day as he faces the unimaginable alternative of continuing with the biggest and riskiest seaborne invasion in historical past, or delay because of climate and threat dropping the conflict altogether. Watch the trailer beneath:
Directed by Anthony Maras, who co-wrote the script with David Haig primarily based on his 2014 stage play, Stress additionally stars Andrew Scott as Royal Air Power meteorologist James Stagg, who’s tasked with delivering a climate forecast to the Allied excessive command that may decide whether or not the D-Day operation can proceed within the days main as much as their deliberate invasion of Europe in 1944.
Along with the Oscar-winning Brendan Fraser and three-time Emmy nominee Andrew Scott, the forged additionally contains Oscar nominee Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin) as Kay Summersby, Chris Messina as Irving P. Krick, Emmy winner Damian Lewis (Homeland) as Bernard Montgomery, Henry Ashton as John Eisenhower, Con O’Neill as Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Daniel Quinn-Toye, Toby Williams, and Max Croes.
Although the D-Day invasion has been depicted many instances on display screen, most notably in Saving Personal Ryan (1998), Stress shifts focus to the tense deliberations behind the landings, analyzing the unimaginable alternative confronted by Basic (and future president) Eisenhower as historical past balances on a single weather-beaten choice that might alter the course of the conflict, and historical past itself.
In flip, Stress seems to play much less like a standard World Struggle II film and extra like a slow-burning political thriller, pushed by intense conversations behind-the-scenes. Brendan Fraser’s commanding efficiency underscores the burden of management, presenting Eisenhower as a gentle but deeply human determine confronting an unimaginable alternative throughout some of the consequential wartime moments in historical past.
Stress releases in theaters in america on Might 29, adopted by September 11 in the UK.
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December 3, 1968
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Indianapolis, Indiana, USA