The Shape of Water
2017 film by Guillermo del Toro · Released August 31, 2017
The Shape of Water is a 2017 dark fantasy film directed and produced by Guillermo del Toro, who co-wrote the screenplay with Vanessa Taylor. It stars Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Octavia Spencer. Set in 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, and inspired by Creature from the Black Lagoon, the film follows a mute cleaner at a high-security government laboratory who falls in love with a captured humanoid amphibian creature and decides to help him escape from death at the hands of an evil colonel. Filming took place on location in Ontario, Canada, from August to November 2016.
Cast ages when filming began (August 15, 2016)
- Sally Hawkins, as Elisa Esposito: 40
- Michael Shannon, as Richard Strickland: 42
- Octavia Spencer, as Zelda Delilah Fuller: 46
- Doug Jones, as "The Amphibian Man": 56
- Richard Jenkins, as Giles: 69
- Michael Stuhlbarg, as Robert Hoffstetler / Dimitri Mosenkov: 48
- Nick Searcy, as General of the Air Force Frank Hoyt: 57
- Nigel Bennett, as Mihalkov: 66
- Lauren Lee Smith, as Elaine Strickland: 36
- John Kapelos, as Mr. Arzoumanian: 60
- Morgan Kelly, as Pie Guy: 40