Things seem to be going well over at Sony…
In a deal near seven figures, Sony Pictures Animation won a three-studio auction for an animated movie pitch centering on the Emoji, those lovable round headed figures that are as much a staple of social media correspondence as adverbs and adjectives. The project will be co-written by Eric Siegel and Anthony Leondis, with the latter directing the feature. Leondis pitched the project around to studios, with storyboards for how the movie would play out.
...says Deadline HERE.
Despite my snark above, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t vaguely interested in learning what angle Siegel and Leondis have come up with here. Emoji, at face value, wouldn’t seem to lend themselves to much storytelling potential. For some reason, the first notion which sprang to mind is that shitty PAC-MAN cartoon from the early 1980s.
Presumably they’ve come up with something more promising than that?
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Glen Oliver
“Merrick”
