Without question, Guillermo del Toro is one of the most visually stunning directors working today. Regardless of what critics may think of the finished product, his films all look amazing. That being said, there’s no way a new film directed by him set in Cold War-era America that features a mysterious government experiment could be anything less than stunning. In the just-released trailer for “The Shape of Water,” viewers get a chance to see what Del Toro has planned for his follow-up to “Crimson Peak.”
“The Shape of Water” is the upcoming film written, produced, and directed by Del Toro. The film takes place in the United States in 1963, where there’s a hidden, high-security government laboratory that is housing a secret experiment. If you guessed that the secret experiment is related to a monster, per usual del Toro style, then you’d be right. Sally Hawkins and Octavia Spencer star in the film as two workers who stumble upon the classified experiment. Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Del Toro regular Doug Jones round out the cast.
Fox Searchlight will release “The Shape of Water” on December 8th, right in the heart of the late Oscar season.
SOLD!
As much as I love Guillermo del Toro, isn’t the tone a bit similar to what he did for Hellboy and Abe Sapien? It feels a bit revisionist.