"Monster, Shit, and Tumblr: But conjuring del Toro's dreams is a tal  ask, and Hollywood isn't exactly in the busi-  ness of financing monster-human romances.  Fox Searchlight offered to bankroll the film at  $19.5 million, but only if del Toro agreed to  abandon his original plan to shoot Shape in  black and white. He agreed. ""To be disarm-  ingly and horribly honest,"" he says, ""black and  white was a pawn sacrifice. I was not really  ppear  reasonable. 'Oh, Guillermo! He's such a nice  interested in it, but I knew I needed to a  guy. He gave up black and white.""  that budget, ure Toronto-set  production had to get creative to believably re  create 1962 Baltimore. Fortunately, production  designer Paul D. Austerberry (30 Days of Night)  visited the Toronto sets of the de  roduced FX series The Strain just as  He was able to save  urpose it for Shape. ""We  e mateiil ofa lot of set builds for a movie  er set-building budget,"" Auster-  without a proper  e and his team also scoured il spookwarfare:Holy shit dudes"
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