The film centres on the crucial hours leading up to the Normandy landings.

Filming begins today, 9 September on Pressure, a new WWII drama starring Andrew Scott.

Adapted from David Haig’s stage play, the feature centres on the crucial decision-making behind the D-Day landings, as Britain’s chief meteorological officer James Stagg (Scott) must deliver the most portentous forecast in history, ensuring the success – or not – of the planned seaborne invasion.

Stagg enters a tense standoff with the Allied leadership, whereupon the final decision rests with Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower, played by Brendan Fraser. Kerry Condon plays Eisenhower’s trusted aide Captain Kay Summersby, with Chris Messina as Irving P. Krick and Damian Lewis in the role of Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery.

Anthony Maras is in the director’s chair, calling the shots from a screenplay he wrote with Haig. Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan produce for Working Title Films; it is a co-production with StudioCanal. Locations include Mentmore Towers, Bucks.

Working Title is busy as ever with a slate including Johnny English 4, due to shoot in the UK and Malta, and CC: Emily, a feature now filming in Manchester directed by Alicia MacDonald.

Scott is coming off filming his role in Wake Up Dead Man – the third Knives Out film – that recently completed a UK shoot, starring Daniel Craig.