Directed by Tony Leondis Based on Emojis | Produced by Michelle Raimo Kouyate Music by Patrick Doyle | |
Written by Eric Siegel
Tony Leondis
Mike White Starring T. J. Miller
Ilana Glazer
James Corden
Patrick Stewart
Maya Rudolph
Steven Wright
Rob Riggle
Jennifer Coolidge
Jake T. Austin | ||
The Emoji Movie (previously Emojimovie: Express Yourself) is an upcoming American 3D computer-animated comedy film directed by Tony Leondis, written by Leondis, Eric Siegel and Mike White, and starring the voices of T.J. Miller, Ilana Glazer, James Corden, Patrick Stewart, Steven Wright, and Rob Riggle. Produced by Sony Pictures Animation, the film will be released on August 4, 2017, by Columbia Pictures.
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Synopsis
The film will center on Gene, a multi-expressional emoji who sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji.
Cast
Production
On July 21, 2015, it was announced that Sony Pictures Animation had won the bidding war, against Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures, of an animated film centered on emoji, based on the script by Eric Siegel and Tony Leondis, with Leondis also directing the film. Michelle Raimo Kouyate would produce the film. At 2016 CinemaCon, the film was officially announced and it was revealed that it would be set in the digital world in a smartphone.
In July 2016, T. J. Miller was announced as lead Emoji Gene in a tweet by Sony Pictures Animation on World Emoji Day. In October 2016, it was announced that Ilana Glazer and James Corden will be joining the cast as well. In December 2016, the film's title was renamed from Emojimovie: Express Yourself, to simply The Emoji Movie.
On December 20, 2016, a teaser trailer for the film was released.
Release
In November 2015, Sony scheduled the film to be released on August 11, 2017. A year later, it was moved forward to August 4, 2017, with Sony's Baby Driver taking its date. The film will be shown alongside Puppy, which is a short film based on the Hotel Transylvania films.