Emojimovie: Express Yourself: James Corden joins cast as first image and synopsis released
Emojimovie: Express Yourself – Credit: Sony Pictures Animation
James Corden and Ilana Glazer have joined the cast of Sony’s Emoji movie as Hi-5 and Jailbreak.
The cast announcement was made along with the reveal of the film’s official title – ‘Emojimovie: Express Yourself’ – and the first details about the animated movie that also stars T.J. Miller (‘Silicon Valley’) in the lead role.
Here’s the official story synopsis for the film that’s headed to cinemas in August, 2017…
‘EMOJIMOVIE: EXPRESS YOURSEL’F unlocks the never-before-seen secret world inside your smartphone. Hidden within the messaging app is Textopolis, a bustling city where all your favourite emojis live, hoping to be selected by the phone’s user. In this world, each emoji has only one facial expression – except for Gene (T.J. Miller), an exuberant emoji who was born without a filter and is bursting with multiple expressions.
“Determined to become “normal” like the other emojis, Gene enlists the help of his handy best friend Hi-5 (James Corden) and the notorious code breaker emoji Jailbreak (Ilana Glazer). Together, they embark on an epic “app-venture” through the apps on the phone, each its own wild and fun world, to find the Code that will fix Gene. But when a greater danger threatens the phone, the fate of all emojis depends on these three unlikely friends who must save their world before it’s deleted forever.”
It sounds to us like a cross between ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ and ‘The LEGO Movie’, both high watermarks for the crowded animation genre, so they’ve quite a challenge on their hands.
The film is being directed by Anthony Leonidis, the filmmaker behind Dreamworks’ recently-cancelled ‘B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations’.
‘Emojimovie: Express Yourself’ is coming to cinemas on 11 August, 2017.