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Video Featurette Highlights ‘The Shape of Water’ Creature Effects

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He needed to be a creature you could fall in love with.”

Guillermo del Toro has been quoted as saying that “the asset” in The Shape of Water wasn’t designed as a monster, but rather a leading man. Indeed the creature, portrayed by Doug Jones, is the leading man of the visionary film, a unique love story between a human woman and an amphibian animal with a heart of gold… and a taste for cat.

The design process on the creature reportedly took a few years, and a new featurette video highlights that road from concept sketch to sculpt to creature in the flesh.

The Shape of Water scored an incredible 13 Academy Awards nominations earlier this week, but weirdly was *not* nominated for Best Makeup. Go figure!

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Matilda Firth Joins the Cast of Director Leigh Whannell’s ‘Wolf Man’ Movie

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Pictured: Matilda Firth in 'Christmas Carole'

Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.

Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things),  Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.

The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).

Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.

Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.

Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.

In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.

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