The Wondrous Trailer For Guillermo del Toro’s THE SHAPE OF WATER Arrives

Audiences at this weekend’s showings of WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES saw the magical trailer for master story teller Guillermo del Toro’s THE SHAPE OF WATER – an other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1963.

Today, FoxSearchlight released online the trailer.

In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of silence and isolation. Elisa’s life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) discover a secret classified experiment. Rounding out the cast are Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg and Doug Jones.

In his filmmaking career, del Toro has alternated between Spanish-language dark fantasy pieces, such as the gothic horror film The Devil’s Backbone (2001), and Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), and more mainstream American action movies, such as the vampire superhero action film Blade II (2002), the supernatural superhero film Hellboy (2004), its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), and the science fiction monster film Pacific Rim (2013).

Pan’s Labyrinth was nominated for Best Foreign Language and Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards in 2006.

THE SHAPE OF WATER opens in theaters on December 8th.

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