X-Men's Professor X is the voice cast for The Emoji movie

 

Throughout his decorated career, Sir Patrick Stewart has amassed a collection of truly memorable roles. We’ve had the great Professor X, Star Trek‘s Jean-Luc Picard and, more recently, Darcy Banker, the neo-Nazi skinhead seen in Jeremy Saulnier’s excellent Green Room. But in 2017, Stewart will lend his voice to Sony’s Emoji Movie.

He’ll play Poop and we understand that Stewart has climbed on board alongside a whole host of newcomers including Jennifer Coolidge,  Maya Rudolph as Smiler, and Jake T. Austin as the human character of Sony’s twee animation. Anthony Leondis is at the helm for The Emoji Movie, which largely centres around Gene, a sprightly symbol who has essentially been rendered the outcast of Textopolis after displaying more than one emotion. In order to course-correct his internal code, our pixelated protagonist teams up with Hi-5 and a stealthy hacker by the name of Jailbreak for an app-venture like no other. Eric Siegel co-wrote the script with Leondis.

Get ready to venture into the pixelated world of Textopolis when The Emoji Movie opens on August 4.