![]() ![]() “They live in these houses, they switch shifts, but it’s almost a family business for each and every one of them. “It feels a little like this is their job,” says Miller. The presentation of footage shown to the press exhibits quite a lot of detailed world-building for the film, not surprising since it’s a first-time look at this universe, but there’s a strangely blue collar ethic to it as well. So he helped create this world (down to) even the idea that the sidewalks will light up like your phone.” Our production designer is Carlos Zaragoza and he was one of the art directors on Pan’s Labyrinth, which is one of my favorite movies. And as far as the city and stuff, we wanted it to look emoji-esque. When you pull up your emojis, we wanted the world to kind of have that look and feel so when I looked at the phone, I thought, ‘Oh my God, they’re looking at (retro game show) Hollywood Squares.’ So it’s kind of an easy one there. “It’s all about how the emojis fit on the phone. “The inspiration is all about the phone,” says Leondis about the movie’s design. It’s a vibrant, colorful world, recognizable from the screen of your phone but utterly strange as well. The Emoji Movie, which Leondis co-wrote with Eric Siegel and Mike White, takes the viewer inside the secret world of your typical smartphone, where tucked away inside the messaging app is Textopolis, the secret city where all the emojis live. But I sort of felt like, if you’re open to the story being great, then the template should not be something that you should look down your nose at…I just thought, ‘Here’s a story that I really like and I just thought this is definitely a film that we could make our version of The Lego Movie if only in the sense that you’re thinking, ‘Why the hell would I go and see this movie for, because what it is about?’ That’s just not going to be the case.”įrom what we saw in a Sony screening room just before this interview, Miller and Leondis may have actually made a very good case for why they wanted to make this picture. ![]() “Somebody on the Internet immediately started trashing this movie with no information. “I definitely thought, when they came to me, I thought about The Lego Movie, and that you should not poo-poo (anything),” he recalls. I think that’s such great fodder for a story.” “I mean you can make a movie about cars, you can make a movie about…These are these little characters that exist and our producer was like, ‘I want to know what the story is like inside the phone.’ And that made me think, ‘What is that whole world?’ It just kind of built from there. “I just thought, ‘Oh my gosh, these are the new toys of the world,” says Leondis. ![]()
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