The Shape of Water
A fairy tale for troubled times.
Country
Production
Budget
$19 500 000
Revenue
$195 300 000
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale, Liz Sayre
Operator
Composer
Artist
Paul D. Austerberry, Peter Dydo, Carlos Arancibia
Audition
Robin D. Cook
Editing
Sidney Wolinsky
All team (118)
All team (118)
Short description
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
What's left behind the scenes
- Initially, Guillermo del Toro wanted to shoot the film in black and white, but he changed his mind when the studio offered to increase the budget if the film was shot in color.
- It took over 9 months to create the creature's image. Guillermo del Toro states that 'The Shape of Water' is the most complex film he has ever undertaken.
- It took Doug Jones three hours each day to get into the creature's costume. The actor stated that he had never had so much trouble with a costume in any of del Toro's previous films.
- The main inspiration for creating 'The Shape of Water' was the film 'Creature from the Black Lagoon,' which the director watched as a child. Del Toro was already captivated by the gill-man despite his unappealing appearance, wanting to see a successful development of a romantic storyline between the creature and the kidnapped Kay Lawrence. Initially, Del Toro wanted to film a remake of the film, where the plot also revolves around an expedition in the upper Amazon, but with the difference that a woman leads the group, and a romance develops between her and the gill-man. The director attempted to negotiate with Universal about creating the film, but the company's executives rejected the idea.
- Eliza displays existing records of The Great Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller Plays Selections from The Glenn Miller Story and Other Hits. Both were released in 1956.
- Guillermo del Toro began working on the film in 2011. He financed many aspects of the production (particularly the creation of the laboratory and the creature on screen) out of his own pocket.
- Filming took 12 weeks.
Similar movies
8.4/10
8.4/10
8.3/10
8.3/10
8.2/10
8.2/10
8.1/10
8.1/10
8.1/10
8/10
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
