If it wasn’t for Pacific Rim Uprising suffering delays in its production process, we may not have ever gotten Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water.
From the looks of the film itself, and the sounds the critics have been making in response to the actual story, it’s pretty clear that The Shape of Water was the right project at the right time, as this fairy tale for adults looks as lush and heart-breaking as the director’s best work.
The smaller film was touted as “Wall-E meets The Little Mermaid,” and the project that he and co-writer Vanessa Taylor had crafted for years was given the room to proceed when del Toro made the decision to switch gears during the interim.