When Sony Pictures had announced The Emoji Movie, an animated feature film based on the famous emoticons, everyone was thinking of a bad joke. However, the film is very real, and its first trailer has just been unveiled.
We find there Mel Meha character dubbed by Steven Wright, who will be the hero’s father, Embarrassedwhich will have the voice of TJ Miller, in the original version. Embarrassed is a emoji born without filter with several expressions, who will join forces with “his faithful friend with incomparable tact, Hi-5 (James Corden), and the famous hacker Jailbreak (Ilana Glazer) for an epic adventure in Textopolis within the applications of the mobile phone. ‘a teen “. Each app will be on a different adventure, like quick music facts for Spotifyor a game grid to complete in order to survive in Candy Crush Saga. Dropbox, instagram, just dance, Twitter, Youtube, Crackle, Facebook, Shazam, Snapchat or Twitch will also be there.
Tony Leondis, the film’s director, says: “Everyone, from schoolboy to grandmother, sends emojis every day to express their love, frustration or joy… We all have a special connection with these icons that we send to make our feelings explicit, which laid the foundations for a rich story and characters that viewers of all ages and walks of life can relate to. »
Kristine Belson, President of Sony Pictures Animation, adds, “We determined early on that we wanted to bring real life applications to the film to ground it in reality and legitimize the characters’ pursuits. The fact that each of the application publishers who were approached immediately said yes is incredible proof of the relevance of the film. »
Written by Tony Leondis, Eric Siegel and Mike White, and produced by Michelle Raimo Kouyate, The Emoji Movie will be released on August 4, 2017 in the United States.
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