--- description: Yes, Sony Pictures has an actual emoji movie in the works title: Watch Jimmy Kimmel and Brie Larson's Dramatic Reading of the New Emoji Movie Script image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Here's Jimmy Kimmel and Brie Larson's Brilliant Idea for the New Emoji Movie by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 23, 2015 2:51 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 23, 2015 2:51 PM CUT On Wednesday, Sony [announced its plans](http://time.com/3967098/emoji-movie-sony-pictures-animation/ "undefined") to make an “emoji movie.” So, yes, a full-length motion picture starring the little icons we text each other. Later that night, Jimmy Kimmel (jokingly) revealed that he got “an early look at the rough emoji movie script” — and it actually wasn’t bad. He recruited _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ guest Brie Larson to help him do a dramatic reading of the script, which is really just the two of them rattling off descriptions of different emoji. The thing is, though, that it actually does form a coherent story. It ends up being some pretty emotional stuff. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3969440/emoji-movie-jimmy-kimmel-brie-larson/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3969440/emoji-movie-jimmy-kimmel-brie-larson/"},"headline":"Here's Jimmy Kimmel and Brie Larson's Brilliant Idea for the New Emoji Movie","datePublished":"2015-07-23T14:51:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:22:27.731Z","description":"Yes, Sony Pictures has an actual emoji movie in the works","url":"https://time.com/3969440/emoji-movie-jimmy-kimmel-brie-larson/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3969440/emoji-movie-jimmy-kimmel-brie-larson/","name":"Here's Jimmy Kimmel and Brie Larson's Brilliant Idea for the New Emoji Movie"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Emoji Passcodes for Online Banking","description":"Emoji Passcodes for Online Banking","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/ZSBkQLdO/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-15T15:37:18.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ZSBkQLdO.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3969440/emoji-movie-jimmy-kimmel-brie-larson/","duration":"PT1M57S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3969440/emoji-movie-jimmy-kimmel-brie-larson/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```