Film-maker Guillermo del Toro seemed to be counting down the hours until he began filming his latest movie, The Shape of Water.
None of their roles were specified in the release, though Del Toro told the Hollywood Reporter that Jones will play “the creature”.
The Academy Award-nominated del Toro will direct and co-write with Vanessa Taylor of Divergent and Game of Thrones fame. The film’s cast has been hailed as “insanely great”, many of them Oscar nominees.
In a profile of del Toro from earlier this month, the Guardian wrote that an “amphibious man forms a bond with a mortal woman” in the film.