Guillermo Del Toro has begun production on his new film The Shape of Water

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

The fact that Guillermo Del Toro has begun production on a new film should be cause for celebration. The HELLBOY and CRIMSON PEAK director is notorious for becoming attached to dozens of projects that eventually fall apart or move to other filmmakers. But, Del Toro’s long gestating Cold War era film has officially begun production and now will be known by the title THE SHAPE OF WATER. Studio Fox Searchlight issued a press release that the film has begun principal production in Toronto.

Very little is known about THE SHAPE OF WATER outside of the cast that includes Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Octavia Spencer. Del Toro will share screenwriting credit on THE SHAPE OF WATER alongside Vanessa Taylor (Game of Thrones, DIVERGENT). The plot is being kept under wraps but we do know that it is set in 1963 America during the height of the Cold War. It involves a mute janitor (Hawkins) working in a laboratory where she falls in love with an amphibious man. The two escape and are hunted down by Michael Shannon‘s character.

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