Sony’s Emoji Movie Gets Official Title

 

Over the weekend, World Emoji Day had its turn in the limelight, and Sony took the opportunity to announce Deadpool star T.J. Miller will headline The Emoji Movie. News arrives in tandem with an official title for the feature film, which will hit theaters in 2017 bearing the name EmojiMovie: Express Yourself.

Miller clinched the role of Gene, a ‘meh’ emoji who is designed to display but one emotion much like his parents. An unexpected glitch in his system flips the table, though, opening up a host of expressions for Miller’s cutesy protagonist to experience.

Here’s the all-too-brief logline for Sony’s flick: “Inside your phone, there’s a secret world – and we enter through the text app where we discover Emoji Valley, where the industrious Emoji live and work.”
Swapping Silicon Valley for the secretive world of Emoji Valley, T.J. Miller will headline Sony’s EmojiMovie: Express Yourself when it hits these shores on August 11, 2017.