I watched the preview and didn’t realize that’s who Fraser was playing! Yeah, totally wrong for that role (and I think Brendan Fraser is a great actor)
I expect that a movie that appears to be entirely about the days prior to D-Day isn’t going to spend a whole lot of time on the previous four years. Why should it?
I’m very curious how the story will be told.
There has to be a lot more than James Stagg handing Ike a weather report. 
That’s a five minute scene.
I vaguely remember there was a small window of time in June. Otherwise the invasion would be postponed to July.
I expect that point will be a big part of the movie’s drama.
From the trailer, it looks like it includes the botched landing rehearsals in Devon that cost the lives of 749 servicemen.
They needed an early morning high tide for the landing and a full moon for the parachute drop. As of about June 4th the troops, airmen and sailors involved were quarantined from their bases and ready to go. The number of people who knew about the location and plan for the invasion went from a relatively small few to thousands. If it were delayed there was no way to keep all those troops quarantined. Also impossible to keep them from talking for a month. Either the plan would have to be scrapped or risk the chance for the Germans to know exactly where it was going.
The early high tide was absolutely mandatory. The full moon was a “very nice to have”, and there was some thought to dropping the paratroops on a moonless night that had the right tides if necessary (e.g. two weeks later) - but given how much of a Charlie-Foxtrot the paradrops were with a full moon, it’s painful to contemplate how bad they would have gone with dark skies.
Looks pretty good. Thanks
That’s a whole story in itself. Exercise Tiger was a rehearsal for the American forces tasked with landing on Utah Beach that turned into an absolute disaster. Communication problems meant that many of the troops on landing craft were killed by “friendly” fire. Then they were attacked by German E-boats in Lyme Bay, who had seen something going on and come to investigate.
The Forgotten Dead: The true story of Exercise Tiger, the disastrous rehearsal for D-Day Paperback – 28 Jun. 2018
Ken Small & Mark Rogerson