Sony Animation making an emoji movie because ¯_(ツ)_/¯

You know Hollywood is running out of ideas when there’s going to be a movie with emojis as the primary source material. Sony is betting we are. Granted we’ve been obsessed with emojis and it’s the fastest growing language, but an entire movie dedicated to emojis is like… WTF? Three studios bid-I’ve heard Warner Bros and Paramount were the others-but none more aggressively than Sony. That film, which features a voice cast including Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, Matt Bomer and Seth Rogen, has been awaiting a release date, pulled from the schedule as DWA went through a restructuring.

What say you, is there a way to make an animated film about Emoji’s work? That makes this project a sort of no-brainer to get made.

His previous credit embrace engaged on Lion King 2 and Prince of Egypt as a narrative artist and Lilo and Stitch as a director.

Leondis has mostly directed straight-to-home-video shorts based on existing properties (like Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters), but just wrapped up his first feature-length film with DreamWorks Animation’s B.O.O.: Bureau Of Otherworldly Operations. We get that enough on our phones.