The Shape of Water is a 2017 American romantic dark fantasy drama film directed by Guillermo del Toro and written by del Toro and Vanessa Taylor. It stars Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Octavia Spencer. Set in Baltimore in 1962, the story follows a mute cleaner at a high - security government laboratory who falls in love with a captured humanoid amphibian creature.
who wrote the script for shape of water
Guillermo del Toro Vanessa Taylor