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Here’s the In-Progress Poster for Guillermo del Toro’s ‘The Shape of Water’
We wouldn’t normally write up a post about an unfinished movie poster, but dammit we are just that damn excited about Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming The Shape of Water.
The film’s first trailer is attached to 1/3 of the War for the Planet of the Apes prints screening out there in the country right now, and social media reaction to it has been pretty damn positive. My buddy Ben Gates noted that “it looked like a futuristic Creature From The Black Lagoon in a laboratory,“ which is pretty much all I needed to hear.
Unfortunately, that trailer hasn’t yet hit the net, and we’re not sure if/when it’s going to. But while we wait, you can check out the in-progress teaser poster for the film, being drawn up by artist James Jean. We expect to have much more to share real soon!
Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me. WIP for @RealGDT pic.twitter.com/Qbggt8AQ1O
— James Jean (@JamesJeanArt) July 17, 2017
The Shape of Water is an other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1963.
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.
Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg and Doug Jones also star.
With del Toro’s body of work – including Blade 2, Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth, Cronos, Mimic, Crimson Peak and even Pacific Rim – it’s hard to imagine this will be anything but something we should be covering.
Look for the R-rated film on December 8, 2017.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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